Digital competence in high school teachers as a means for educational innovation

This study identifies the dimensions of digital competence that teachers of a high school in the State of Mexico during the second semester of 2015 should strengthen; a quantitative methodology with an ex-post-facto non-experimental design was applied, with surveys of 12 teachers and interviews with four teachers. The data was analyzed according to three categories: digital competences, use of educational technology and social and professional development, divided into dimensions with indicators of the competences to be developed. The results showed several areas of opportunity for teachers: the use of multilingual multimedia resources; the design of resources with advanced technology to create, publish and share material in virtual learning spaces; use of social networks to share knowledge with colleagues and professional growth; ICT as a means of specialization and professional development to access sources that improve daily practice, and communication tools via the Internet.