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The article proposes a (re)reading of the organizational process of the feminist movement in Latin America from the appropriation of the internet and the technological tools for the creation of communication networks and for the strengthening of activism around the rights of women. To this end, it uses a literature review focused on women's rights to communication and documents that demarcate the debate about the need to disseminate alternative contents and strengthen women's voices as political subjects, based on the initiatives promoted since the 1990s on the use communication to reduce gender inequalities. Throughout the text, the aim is to recover the debate about the strategies of feminist militancy articulated with the media field, in order to dialogue with the historical struggles of women for rights and with the demands and challenges of the present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article is an approximation to a state of the art about teaching formation and information and communications technology -ICT- in the Latin America context. It is based on the first decade of the year 2000, due to it represents the present where the new technologies have obtained a better expansion and appropriation in the schooling scenarios. The process of researching and analyses of the investigative developments in the field of teaching formation and the TIC, let us have an approximation to 46 documents from investigations done in different countries and in different universities, which let us establish 7 investigative perspectives in relation to the subject or object being studied, like this: 1. Teachers in initial formation; 2. Current teachers; 3. teachers of teachers; 4. superior teaching, 5. University and continuing formation, 6. Policies, proposals, programs and / or experience 7. Bibliographical Investigation and/or Question States. That facilitates in identifying the conception of technology, the trend in relation to the theory and methodology in the field of study, and obtaining as well, the recognition of diffusion organisms of investigative developments in relation to teachers' formation and ICT. The text is structured in three stages: A first stage that tells about the identified perspectives, together with a chart that summarized the studies that build each perspective. A second stages those points out the theoretical and methodological trends, the conception of methodology that emerges from those perspectives; and, the recognition of diffusion organisms of the researching developments. A third stage, and last part deals with final considerations relating to what is considered an approximation to a state of the art in teaching formation and ICT in the Latin America context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a study about the perceptions that primary and secondary school teachers in Latin America have about Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) use in education. A questionnaire to measure perceptions was designed using as a theoretical framework the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) (Venkatesh, Davis and Davis, 2003). Results from the questionnaire administered to a population of 524 teachers from sixty nine schools located in eight Latin American countries that attended a five months online teacher training course, show that teachers have a positive perception about technology usefulness in education and that they perceive that using technology would not require too much effort or time. In an attempt to shed more light on these results, online forum interactions during the course were analyzed using the same theoretical framework. The analysis confirmed the results of the test, and revealed additional information about their desire to use technology to comply with their group's subjective culture (Thompson, Higgins & Howell, 1991), their concept of technology and awareness of the risks of misuse in education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]