Educommunication and ICT: from a corpus to a model of educational intervention for critical attitude

ABSTRACT

This article proposes an educational intervention model from Educommunication, integrating communication, pedagogy, information technologies and human development principles. The methods used included, first, an exploratory and quantitative procedure to identify the theoretical foundations of Educommunication and critical attitudes. Then a qualitative procedure was carried out to analyse the reference texts. This resulted in an ad hoc objective corpus that allowed the integration of the main strands of Educommunication and provided epistemic support for the model. The development of the corpus also led to the identification of the field’s advances, thus creating theoretical constructs based on the question of how to promote critical attitudes through Educommunication. The model highlights the link between education and ICT development and aims to promote critical attitudes through seven dimensions: media literacy and communication, relationship with others, hypertext, curricular aspects, technology use, methodology and learning objectives.

KEYWORDS:

• Educommunication
• critical thinking
• information and communication technologies
• education
• educational intervention

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

The work was supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia tecnología e Innovación.

Notes on contributors

Cirit Mateus De Oro

Cirit Mateus De Oro is a psychologist who completed postgraduate studies in clinical psychology at the Universidad de Leon and the Universidad Metropolitana, Colombia. She is a full professor at the Universidad Metropolitana in Barranquilla, Minciencias and a scholar at the Universidad del Norte, Colombia. She holds a PhD in Communication from the Universidad del Norte. Her professional interests focus on Educommunication and Gamification. She is the author and co-author of several journal articles and book chapters.

Daladier Jabba

Daladier Jabba has a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, an MSc in Computer Engineering from the University of South Florida-Tampa and an MSc in Computer Science from UNAB, Colombia. Professor Jabba is a Full Professor of the Department of Systems Engineering at Universidad del Norte and a Research Group on Computer Networks and Software Engineering – GReCIS member. He has more than 60 papers published in different journals and 15 publications between books and book chapters. Professor Jabba works on projects with University–Industry interaction. His expertise is researching routing protocols for the Internet of Things (IoT). In recent years, he has been working on developing ICT platforms as support in the social and educational fields.

Ana María Erazo-Coronado

Ana María Erazo-Coronado is a dentist who has carried out postgraduate studies in endodontics at the Universidad Stadual of Campinas, Brazil. She is Full Professor at the Universidad Metropolitana in Barranquilla, Colombia. She earned her PhD in Communication from the Universidad del Norte. Her professional interest focuses on interpersonal health communication and risk and crisis communication. She is the author and co-author of several journal articles and book chapters.

Ignacio Aguaded

Ignacio Aguaded is a Full Professor of Education and Communication at the Universidad de Huelva. He has been Editor-in-Chief of Comunicar, a Media Education Research Journal, and President of Grupo Comunicar, a long-standing Media Literacy collective in Spain. He is also head of the Agora investigation team that forms part of the Andalusia Investigation Plan (HUM-648), Director of the International Master of Communication and Education (UNIA, UHU) and coordinator of the UHU Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Communication (US, UMA, UCA, UHU).

Rodrigo Campis Carrillo

Rodrigo Campis Carrillo is a psychologist who completed postgraduate studies in education at the Universidad del Atlántico, Colombia. He is a Full Professor at the Universidad Metropolitana de Barranquilla, Minciencias and a scholar of the Universidad del Norte, Colombia. He holds a PhD in Communication from the Universidad del Norte. His professional interests focus on Educommunication and Gamification. He is the author and co-author of several journal articles and book chapters.