Mª Montserrat Castro-Rodríguez

Dr. Mª Montserrat Castro-Rodríguez


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Academic Career Length

12Years (2015-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 September 2021 in Education Sciences
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MCMª Montserrat Castro-Rodríguez
Mª Montserrat Castro-Rodríguez
DIANA MARÍN SUELVESDIANA MARÍN SUELVES
DIANA MARÍN SUELVES
SLSilvia López-Gómez
Silvia López-Gómez
JRJesús Rodríguez Rodríguez
Jesús Rodríguez Rodríguez
Blended learning is a set of pedagogical strategies and practices that are closely related to the emergence of new technologies in society and in higher education. They are characterized by a combination of face-to-face and online learning that integrates a variety of materials in the teaching and learning process. The aim of our research was to analyze scientific production on this topic using two prestigious international databases: Scopus and Web of Science (WOS). A bibliometric study was conducted on 508 papers, and content analysis was performed on 119 openly accessible publications. Results show that blended learning is being applied in all scientific and professional spheres. This learning model is praised for its positive impact on motivation and learning effectiveness, as well as for promoting student autonomy. With respect to content, it is worth noting that many authors observe that methodological success is related to cultural context and access to devices and materials. Furthermore, it is suggested that greater methodological diversity is preferable to a single hegemonic approach. In short, the present paper contributes to the educational community by shedding light on how blended learning is being implemented and its impact on higher education.

8 November 2019 in Revista de Educación a Distancia (RED)
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Mª Montserrat Castro-Rodríguez
DIANA MARÍN SUELVESDIANA MARÍN SUELVES
DIANA MARÍN SUELVES
HSHéctor Sáiz
Héctor Sáiz
La formación de la ciudadanía en competencia digital interesa a administraciones nacionales y supranacionales. En los últimos años se han invertido ingentes cantidades económicas en la dotación de infraestructura y en I+D+I para el desarrollo tecnológico en distintos sectores de la sociedad. La integración de dispositivos digitales en la sociedad ha impacto en las políticas educativas de muchos países, llevándolos a considerar la competencia digital como aspecto clave en la enseñanza obligatoria y esencial para la inclusión social. En este artículo, se presentan los resultados de una investigación realizada en cuatro centros de Educación Primaria de Valencia y Galicia, reconocidos por su trayectoria innovadora en el uso de las TIC. El objetivo es identificar y analizar las visiones que la comunidad educativa de cada escuela tiene sobre la competencia digital que está adquiriendo el alumnado participante en prácticas educativas mediadas por TIC. Para la recogida de información se empleó metodología cualitativa, específicamente entrevistas a profesorado, familias y alumnado. Los resultados reflejan modelos diferentes de trabajo y conceptualización de la competencia digital. Todos ellos reconocen su relevancia para la inclusión en la sociedad del futuro y desmitifican su rol hegemónico en el aprendizaje escolar. The training of citizens in digital competence is of interest to national and supranational administration. In recent years enormous amounts of money have been put into the provision of facilities and I+D+I for technological development in different sectors of society. The integration of digital devices in the industry, communication and society has had a profound impact on educational policies in many countries, making them consider the digital competence as a key in the compulsory education and essential to the social inclusion. This article shows the results of a research conducted in four primary schools from Valencia and Galicia that are recognized because of their innovative trajectory in the use of ICTs. The aim is to identify and analyse the visions of the education community members from each school about the digital competence which is being acquired by the students involved in educational practices mediated by ICTs. To collect the information, it was used a qualitative method based on interviews with teachers, families and students. The results reflect different work models and concepts about the digital competence. It is recognized that the ICTs are relevant to the inclusion in the society of tomorrow and it has been demystified their hegemonic role on school learning.

29 June 2023 in REICE. Revista Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación
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JRJesús Rodríguez Rodríguez
Jesús Rodríguez Rodríguez
DIANA MARÍN SUELVESDIANA MARÍN SUELVES
DIANA MARÍN SUELVES
SLSilvia López-Gómez
Silvia López-Gómez
MCMª Montserrat Castro-Rodríguez
Mª Montserrat Castro-Rodríguez
REICE es una revista de periodicidad trimestral. Su objetivos son: colaborar en la difusión de la investigación educativa que se realiza en Iberoamérica por investigadores Iberoamericanos; Favorecer la utilización de los resultados de la investigación para la mejora de los sistemas educativos, las escuelas y las aulas; Fomentar la realización de investigaciones educativas de calidad.

26 November 2015 in Revista Complutense de Educación
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SDSara Lata Doporto
Sara Lata Doporto
MCMª Montserrat Castro-Rodríguez
Mª Montserrat Castro-Rodríguez
Attention to diversity has turned into one of the basic element of the educational systems of many countries. The educational answers that have generated in schools, those which understand diversity as an enriching value of the educational process, have led to very different models. Internationally, there is a movement that defends the necessity to promote inclusive models, that understand difference as an opportunity to learn together, and places methodology as one of the basic pillars of the teaching and learning process. In this sense, learning based in cooperation presents itself as an alternative proposal to work at school. Different investigations carried out during the last years bring forward the main contributions of the cooperative work in the acquisition of values and attitudes that improve coexistence at the same time that facilitate a better personal development of all the students. Our work in primary and secondary school has allowed us to think about and collect information and our experience around the attention to diversity in the frame of a school that aims to walk towards inclusion. The present article presents a reflection on the contributions of the cooperative learning inside a school that looks for the inclusion of all the boys and girls, relying on our own professional experiences as well as on the analysis and interpretation of the main contributions collected in the national and international bibliography.

1 January 2022 in Revista Colombiana de Educación
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SLSilvia López-Gómez
Silvia López-Gómez
JRJesús Rodríguez Rodríguez
Jesús Rodríguez Rodríguez
M. Isabel Vidal EsteveM. Isabel Vidal Esteve
M. Isabel Vidal Esteve
MCMª Montserrat Castro-Rodríguez
Mª Montserrat Castro-Rodríguez
Este artículo presenta los resultados de una revisión de la literatura sobre estudios centrados en las contribuciones y los efectos de los videojuegos en la atención a la diversidad. Para ello, se tomó como muestra las investigaciones recogidas en las bases de datos Scopus, wos, eric, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (pqdt), Dialnet y csic-isoc y en los buscadores académicos Rebiun, Teseo y ScienceDirect. Después de considerar algunos aspectos del análisis bibliométrico, con el propósito de contextualizar la autoría y la procedencia de los artículos, se procedió a analizar en profundidad el contenido de los documentos seleccionados, de acuerdo con los objetivos de este estudio. Fruto de la interpretación del contenido se elaboró una clasificación categorial que refleja las líneas de investigación en el campo de los estudios sobre videojuegos y educación inclusiva. Las cuatro grandes categorías sobre los efectos de los videojuegos en la atención a la diversidad se relacionan con: alumnado con diversidad funcional y trastornos, posibles efectos perjudiciales ante altos niveles de uso de videojuegos, efectos sobre el aprendizaje escolar e influencia de los videojuegos sobre las habilidades procedimentales y actitudinales. Los resultados evidencian la necesidad de favorecer la adquisición de competencias digitales, el desarrollo emocional de los jugadores y jugadoras, y la prioridad de profundizar en la creación de videojuegos que favorezcan la educación inclusiva.

21 June 2018 in @tic revista d'innovació educativa
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DMDorinda Mato-Vázquez
Dorinda Mato-Vázquez
MCMª Montserrat Castro-Rodríguez
Mª Montserrat Castro-Rodríguez
CGCamino Pereiro González
Camino Pereiro González
Digital technologies have brought about a revolution in all areas of life: technological, business, communicative, cultural, and even in knowledge and entertainment. In the educational landscape it also has its reflection and the methodologies and resources have been redrawn, in terms of different media, channels, languages, narratives, etc. These changes, substantive and profound, affect all the society simultaneously, but other agents as educational administrations and the publishing sector is also involved. In this research we analyze a sample of institutional portals and commercial platforms that offer digital didactic resources in the area of mathematics in the Autonomous Community of Galicia. We focus on the type of materials, the pedagogical model that underlies them, the differences between commercial and institutional platforms, their use, impact on teaching and learning mathematics in the classroom, etc. The instrument used was a questionnaire designed ad hoc and validated and administered to 13 commercial platforms; both those produced commercially by publishing companies and those of an institutional nature generated by the regional administrations of the Canary Islands, Galicia and Valencia. The results indicate that, although the range of online offer of didactic materials for mathematics is wide and with varied formats, they have pedagogical shortcomings that do not favor active methodologies or a true integration of other alternatives that promote the development of open, flexible educational projects that facilitate the attention to the individual and collective diversity of each person, as well as the participation, interactivity / connectivity of the educational community, since most reproduce the format of the printed textbook by adding some online resources.