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This case study analyzes the effect of using a tablet and apps on the communication and language development of a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from an educational perspective. In the first phase of this observational research, a catalog of apps was designed and created to promote the development of communication and language in a student of the open classroom at the San José de Calasanz Pre-School and Elementary School of Yecla, Murcia. Sixteen activities enriched through the use of apps and a tablet were subsequently designed, implemented and assessed. As a result of this innovative experience, the student's language prerequisites, communicative intention and behavior improved. However, the imitation of gestures and actions and the use of protodeclaratives did not improve. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, there are experiences with ICT in the hospital schools. Nevertheless, there have been few studies about how technology can improve educational processes and the premises to consider. From this starting point, we present in this paper, a proposal for curriculum integration of ICT for hospital teachers. It is the main contribution of this paper along with the exhaustive analysis of previous studies. This evaluation research has tried to contribute useful knowledge to meet the needs of a real educational context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Both at international and national levels it is observed that it is increasingly important to specify digital competences in the educational context, referring both to teachers and students. If we look more specifically at students, digital competence is a broad theoretical construct that, among its dimensions, supports the need to analyze and enhance the Personal Learning Environment (PLE), a construct that supports the CAPPLE Project and that allows us to understand in a global way how students use their digital competence in their academic learning processes. In this paper we show the main results of the CAPPLE Project, an exploratory study in which an ad hoc questionnaire was used to determine the strategies and technological tools that final-year university students (n=2,054) use in their learning processes and communication. The questionnaire was validated with a triple procedure and a Cronbach's alpha of 0,944. The evidence obtained allows us to demystify the concept of the "digital native", since senior students integrated technologies to communicate in their personal and leisure spaces, but not too much in their academic activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the entire process of validating the data collection instrument of the CAPPLE project. The validation of the instrument (an online survey) aims to ensure the reliability, validity, relevance and functionality of the collection process. Hence, a validation method based on three complementary procedures has been chosen: expert judgement by eight experts in three consecutive rounds; a round of cognitive interviews with 24 subjects on 10 critical items, and a pilot study with 400 invited subjects, of which 224 are considered the final sample. Following the completion of the three methods described, we get an instrument that meets the validation criteria, configured by four basic dimensions (self-perception, information management, management of the learning process and communication) and that could be considered as a very useful tool in the study of Personal Learning Environments of university students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]