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The increasing presence and relevance of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in learning scenarios has imposed new demands on teachers, who must be able to design new learning situations while relying on the growing supply of available digital resources. One of the fields that more urgently needs to utilize the potential benefits of ICT to transform learning is sustainability, and more precisely the development of sustainability competences (SCs). Indeed, wider societal changes are needed that ensure a balance between economic growth, respect for the environment, and social justice, and these changes must start with individual action, knowledge, and the capacity and willingness to act (i.e., the definition of “competence”). However, although there is a wide consensus on the fact that education should ensure the acquisition of competences for life, making this a reality may be more problematic. This difficulty stems, partly, from a lack of a definition of the intervening elements (knowledge, skills, values, attitudes) that enables the integration of competences into specific learning sequences and activities. Taking into account all the above and the difficulties that teachers face in choosing relevant resources and incorporating competences into their planning, we propose a series of indicators that serve to characterize the four dimensions of scientific competence: contents of science, contents about science, the value of science, and the utility of science in educational materials. Although primarily intended for filtering multimedia resources in an educational platform, this instrument (as well as the indicators therein) can be extrapolated to the selection and management of a variety of resources and activities, eventually selecting those that are more useful for the acquisition of the scientific competence. They can also provide learning-managers with a common ground to work on by sharing the objectives and indicators related to the acquisition of competences.
María Napal; Ana María Mendióroz-Lacambra; Alicia Peñalva. Sustainability Teaching Tools in the Digital Age. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3366 .
AMA StyleMaría Napal, Ana María Mendióroz-Lacambra, Alicia Peñalva. Sustainability Teaching Tools in the Digital Age. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (8):3366.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaría Napal; Ana María Mendióroz-Lacambra; Alicia Peñalva. 2020. "Sustainability Teaching Tools in the Digital Age." Sustainability 12, no. 8: 3366.
Digital competence is one of the eight key competences for life-long learning developed by the European Commission, and is a requisite for personal fulfilment and development, active citizenship, social inclusion, and employment in a knowledge society. To accompany young learners in the development of competence, and to guarantee optimal implementation of information and communication technologies (ICTs), it is necessary that teachers are, in turn, literate. We had 43 secondary school teachers in initial training to assess their own level of competence in 21 sub-competences in five areas identified by the DIGCOMP project, using the rubrics provided in the Common Digital Competence Framework for Teachers (Spanish Ministry of Education). Overall, pre-service teachers’ conceptions about their level of digital competence was low (Initial). Students scored highest in information, which refers mostly to the operations they performed while being students. Secondly, in safety and communication, excluding protection of digital data and preservation of digital identity. Lowest values were achieved in content creation and problem solving, the dimensions most closely related with the inclusion of ICTs to transform teaching-learning processes. The knowledge or skills they exhibit are largely self-taught and, so, we perceive an urgent need to purposefully incorporate relational and didactic aspects of ICT integration.
María Napal Fraile; Alicia Peñalva-Vélez; Ana María Mendióroz Lacambra. Development of Digital Competence in Secondary Education Teachers’ Training. Education Sciences 2018, 8, 104 .
AMA StyleMaría Napal Fraile, Alicia Peñalva-Vélez, Ana María Mendióroz Lacambra. Development of Digital Competence in Secondary Education Teachers’ Training. Education Sciences. 2018; 8 (3):104.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaría Napal Fraile; Alicia Peñalva-Vélez; Ana María Mendióroz Lacambra. 2018. "Development of Digital Competence in Secondary Education Teachers’ Training." Education Sciences 8, no. 3: 104.
Aitor Arrizabalaga-Escudero; María Napal; Joxerra Aihartza; Inazio Garin; Antton Alberdi; Egoitz Salsamendi. Can pinewoods provide habitat for a deciduous forest specialist? A two-scale approach to the habitat selection of Bechstein's bat. Mammalian Biology 2014, 79, 117 -122.
AMA StyleAitor Arrizabalaga-Escudero, María Napal, Joxerra Aihartza, Inazio Garin, Antton Alberdi, Egoitz Salsamendi. Can pinewoods provide habitat for a deciduous forest specialist? A two-scale approach to the habitat selection of Bechstein's bat. Mammalian Biology. 2014; 79 (2):117-122.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAitor Arrizabalaga-Escudero; María Napal; Joxerra Aihartza; Inazio Garin; Antton Alberdi; Egoitz Salsamendi. 2014. "Can pinewoods provide habitat for a deciduous forest specialist? A two-scale approach to the habitat selection of Bechstein's bat." Mammalian Biology 79, no. 2: 117-122.
María Napal; Inazio Garin; Urtzi Goiti; Egoitz Salsamendi; Joxerra Aihartza. Past deforestation of Mediterranean Europe explains the present distribution of the strict forest dweller Myotis bechsteinii. Forest Ecology and Management 2013, 293, 161 -170.
AMA StyleMaría Napal, Inazio Garin, Urtzi Goiti, Egoitz Salsamendi, Joxerra Aihartza. Past deforestation of Mediterranean Europe explains the present distribution of the strict forest dweller Myotis bechsteinii. Forest Ecology and Management. 2013; 293 ():161-170.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaría Napal; Inazio Garin; Urtzi Goiti; Egoitz Salsamendi; Joxerra Aihartza. 2013. "Past deforestation of Mediterranean Europe explains the present distribution of the strict forest dweller Myotis bechsteinii." Forest Ecology and Management 293, no. : 161-170.
In a Geoffroy's bat Myotis emarginatus colony in central Iberia, we investigated the foraging behaviour of six lactating females by means of radio-tracking and the diet of 23 individuals by faecal analysis. The bats preferred to forage mainly in pine plantations, riparian woodland, and scrubland, whereas native dehesa (a loose semi-natural oak Quercus rotundifolia and Q. suber woodland) was not exploited as expected. By far the most important prey type for this bat in the Mediterranean were spiders. We conclude that Geoffroy's bat prefers to forage in multistratified dense habitats, even if these include nonnative plantations. The vertical structuring and especially high cover, along with the combination of both parameters are important for this highly manoeuvrable, clutter-tolerant bat. This is valid even when the vertical component is much reduced as occurs in scrubland, in the first succession steps to woodland creation, and in degraded conditions. Under such circumstances, aerial weaving spiders might be detected and captured when lying in their webs. It is likely that dehesa is too loosely wooded to offer suitable characteristics for orb-weaving aerial spiders to build webs, and thus it may not be as attractive for M. emarginatus as more dense habitats.
Urtzi Goiti; Joxerra Aihartza; Maider Guiu; Egoitz Salsamendi; David Almenar; Maria Napal; Inazio Garin. Geoffroy's bat,Myotis emarginatus, preys preferentially on spiders in multistratified dense habitats: a study of foraging bats in the Mediterranean. Folia Zoologica 2011, 60, 17 -24.
AMA StyleUrtzi Goiti, Joxerra Aihartza, Maider Guiu, Egoitz Salsamendi, David Almenar, Maria Napal, Inazio Garin. Geoffroy's bat,Myotis emarginatus, preys preferentially on spiders in multistratified dense habitats: a study of foraging bats in the Mediterranean. Folia Zoologica. 2011; 60 (1):17-24.
Chicago/Turabian StyleUrtzi Goiti; Joxerra Aihartza; Maider Guiu; Egoitz Salsamendi; David Almenar; Maria Napal; Inazio Garin. 2011. "Geoffroy's bat,Myotis emarginatus, preys preferentially on spiders in multistratified dense habitats: a study of foraging bats in the Mediterranean." Folia Zoologica 60, no. 1: 17-24.
María Napal; Inazio Garin; Urtzi Goiti; Egoitz Salsamendi; Joxerra Aihartza. Habitat Selection byMyotis bechsteiniiin the Southwestern Iberian Peninsula. Annales Zoologici Fennici 2010, 47, 239 -250.
AMA StyleMaría Napal, Inazio Garin, Urtzi Goiti, Egoitz Salsamendi, Joxerra Aihartza. Habitat Selection byMyotis bechsteiniiin the Southwestern Iberian Peninsula. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 2010; 47 (4):239-250.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaría Napal; Inazio Garin; Urtzi Goiti; Egoitz Salsamendi; Joxerra Aihartza. 2010. "Habitat Selection byMyotis bechsteiniiin the Southwestern Iberian Peninsula." Annales Zoologici Fennici 47, no. 4: 239-250.
María Napal; Inazio Garin; Urtzi Goiti; Egoitz Salsamendi; Joxerra Aihartza. Selection of Maternity Roosts by Myotis bechsteinii (Kuhl, 1817) in the Southwestern Iberian Peninsula. Acta Chiropterologica 2009, 11, 425 .
AMA StyleMaría Napal, Inazio Garin, Urtzi Goiti, Egoitz Salsamendi, Joxerra Aihartza. Selection of Maternity Roosts by Myotis bechsteinii (Kuhl, 1817) in the Southwestern Iberian Peninsula. Acta Chiropterologica. 2009; 11 (2):425.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaría Napal; Inazio Garin; Urtzi Goiti; Egoitz Salsamendi; Joxerra Aihartza. 2009. "Selection of Maternity Roosts by Myotis bechsteinii (Kuhl, 1817) in the Southwestern Iberian Peninsula." Acta Chiropterologica 11, no. 2: 425.
We studied diet and prey selection in Mehelyi's horseshoe bats Rhinolophus mehelyi in the south-western Iberian Peninsula, during the breeding seasons of 2003, 2006, and 2007. Faecal pellets were collected individually and arthropod fragments identified to family level, where possible. Arthropod availability was assessed using Malaise traps. Selection analyses were performed using Compositional Analysis and a Chi-square goodness-of-fit test. The bulk of the diet of R. mehelyi consisted of Lepidoptera, representing more than the 80% of the consumed volume on average (excluding juveniles), and more than 90% of the average percentage occurrence. This pattern was consistent across localities. Neuroptera and Tipulidae were locally abundant. Other important prey categories were Chrysomelidae, Brachycera, and Chironomidae. ANOVA tests showed that there were no significant differences between males and females in consumed prey categories, whereas juveniles consumed significantly less Lepidoptera than adults. Lepidoptera was the first prey category in the preference rank, followed by Myrmeleontidae, Chrysopidae and Tipulidae, and all of these were consumed more than expected by chance. This work shows that R. mehelyi is a moth specialist and suggests that juveniles may acquire this strategy while gaining hunting experience. Given the similarities in echolocation call characteristics and diet in the sibling R. mehelyi and R. euryale, they may compete for trophic resources in sympatry. Nevertheless, subtle differences in wing morphology between both species are probably large enough to permit spatial resource partitioning.
Egoitz Salsamendi; Inazio Garin; David Almenar; Urtzi Goiti; María Napal; Joxerra Aihartza. Diet and prey selection in Mehelyi's horseshoe bat Rhinolophus mehelyi (Chiroptera, Rhinolophidae) in the south-western Iberian Peninsula. Acta Chiropterologica 2008, 10, 279 -286.
AMA StyleEgoitz Salsamendi, Inazio Garin, David Almenar, Urtzi Goiti, María Napal, Joxerra Aihartza. Diet and prey selection in Mehelyi's horseshoe bat Rhinolophus mehelyi (Chiroptera, Rhinolophidae) in the south-western Iberian Peninsula. Acta Chiropterologica. 2008; 10 (2):279-286.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEgoitz Salsamendi; Inazio Garin; David Almenar; Urtzi Goiti; María Napal; Joxerra Aihartza. 2008. "Diet and prey selection in Mehelyi's horseshoe bat Rhinolophus mehelyi (Chiroptera, Rhinolophidae) in the south-western Iberian Peninsula." Acta Chiropterologica 10, no. 2: 279-286.