Educational Research and Teaching Strategies in the Digital Society

Abstract

To achieve digital literacy nowadays a media education is required. The digital revolution breaks the barriers of space and time, and information has become the most valuable commodity. The new digital reality favours the convergence of all communicative media in existence and becomes the most powerful instrument, resource, means and message in globalized society. In this new reality education could be the catalyst of change, not only continuity. It is imperative to break this tendency and analyze it in a real and critical way, in all its complexity and dimensions. This is something which should be essential in the formation of teaching professionals in search of an authentic education for the needs of the contemporary world, and a fundamental pillar of a correct literacy of a citizen of the 21st century. In this work we offer a theoretical analysis of the educational research models and teaching strategies in this question.