Ecologías de aprendizaje para usar las TIC inspirándose en docentes referentes

ABSTRACT This paper presents an exploratory study to examine the practices of outstanding primary school teachers in their professional development for ICT integration in teaching and learning, as a means of understanding how their learning ecologies develop and function. Drawing from in-depth interviews, specific coding and NVIVO analysis, our results show that these teachers develop organized systems for activities, relationships and resource usage and production, which can be characterized as the components of their professional learning ecology, to continuously keep up to date. [...]research in the field will enable an improved understanding of the professional learning ecologies of school teachers and support future interventions and recommendations for professional development through the cultivation of emerging professional learning ecologies. Learning ecologies, teachers' professional development, primary school education, outstanding teachers, ICT, case studies, influencing factors, qualitative methodology.