Graduada en Educación Primaria. Máster en Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas. Doctoranda del Programa en Innovación en Formación del Profesorado. Profesora en la Facultad de Educación (UEx) en el área de Teoría e Historia. Su línea de investigación se vincula con los nuevos entornos de aprendizaje y la Historia política y social de la educación.

The mobile phone has become the preferred means of communication, especially among young people, and there are many teachers who are committed to introducing it as a resource in their classrooms. Therefore, the objective of this work was to describe the educational uses of WhatsApp. The methodology was a systematic review of published work on the subject, based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) and similar phases in the process. The sample was made up of 192 papers, which shows the large amount of research that has gone into the subject. WhatsApp’s educational use comes from the creation of groups—students alone or including the teacher. It is applied in both formal and informal education in all educational stages and in numerous subjects. It is also related to improvements in active learning, decision-making, and motivation, in addition to skills related to efficiency, planning, and time organization. Although the application was not designed for the educational environment, its advantages have shown it to be an adequate educational and support resource in teaching and learning at all educational stages.

La situación socio-sanitaria ocasionada por la COVID-19 ha implicado la clausura de los centros educativos forzando a la población escolar a continuar su proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de forma virtual. Esta situación ha puesto en evidencia la brecha digital existente entre los escolares, una realidad que ha aflorado en toda su magnitud para convertirse en objeto y tema de debate en el ámbito periodístico. Este trabajo tiene por objetivo describir el alcance de la brecha digital en el ámbito educativo y sus consecuencias, así como las posibles soluciones a corto y largo plazo. La metodología elegida es de carácter cualitativo apoyada en el análisis de contenido, en la que se exploran y revisan publicaciones de prensa generalista española en el primer mes de confinamiento, tanto de ámbito nacional como autonómico. Los resultados muestran que la prensa aborda el desequilibrio y desigualdad social respecto al acceso a la información y las dificultades consecuentes para acceder a la modalidad online, se observa un claro interés por la brecha digital, principalmente de acceso a internet, como una más de las dificultades en entornos socio-económicos vulnerables para acceder a la educación en igualdad de condiciones. Como conclusión cabe destacar que la pandemia, a través de la prensa generalista, ha incrementado la visibilidad de una situación ya existente: la desigualdad digital. Una desigualdad que favorece la exclusión en una sociedad que se muestra eminentemente tecnológica. The socio-sanitary situation caused by COVID-19 has implied the closure of educational centers, forcing the school population to continue their teaching-learning process virtually. This situation has highlighted the existing digital divide between schoolchildren, a reality that has emerged in all its magnitude to become an object and topic of debate in the journalistic field. This work aims to describe the scope of the digital divide in education and its consequences, as well as possible solutions in the short and long term. The chosen methodology is of a qualitative nature supported by content analysis, in which general Spanish press publications are explored and reviewed in the first month of confinement, both nationally and regionally. The results show that the press addresses the social imbalance and inequality regarding access to information and the consequent difficulties in accessing the online modality, there is a clear interest in the digital divide, mainly internet access, as one more of the Difficulties in vulnerable socio-economic environments to access education under equal conditions. In conclusion, it should be noted that the pandemic, through the generalist press, has increased the visibility of an already existing situation: digital inequality, which favors exclusion in a society that is eminently technological

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