Social networks and their influence in transforming students into digital citizens

Abstract

The digital transformation of universities requires a study of technologies and the teacher’s culture involving talent management and professionalism to benefit from the opportunities offered by the cyberspace environment. This paper proposes good practices to guide digital citizens to synthesize learning and be able to use it in collaborative environments. As a way to develop this area in the Faculty of Educational Technologies, a survey was conducted to first year students of Computer Science Engineering on the use of social networks indicating their online activity from different variables. Results show that students spend too much time on social networks, mainly for entertainment purposes. It is recommended the use of good practices to digital citizens and actions to be taken for the educational work in the Faculty using the diagnosis carried out in students.