Teacher Digital Competence: a scoping review on the subject

Teacher Digital Competence comprises the use, application in the teaching-learning process and possibility of generating educational content and media in a digital context. Since 2006, this issue has been addressed by a portion of the educational scientific community in Europe, the USA and Brazil. The aim of the study was to elaborate a state of knowledge about teacher digital competence, based on studies carried out in the last six years (2017-2022), in order to determine conceptualizations, trends, relevant points and omissions in the treatment of the theme, especially in Brazil. The method was a Scoping Review, according to the PRISMA ScR Extension (Tricco et al, 2018), and the eligibility criteria were as follows: 1) only articles related to the researched topic were included; 2) the time frame was limited to the last five years (2017-2022); 3) the articles used were in Portuguese, English and Spanish; 4) texts were selected that fit the descriptors and the central theme of the research. The sources of evidence were surveyed in the following databases: the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD); the CAPES Catalog of Theses and Dissertations; the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO); the SciVerse Scopus. The results are presented mainly in tables and explanatory texts, which allowed for the analysis of the concepts of Digital Competence and Teacher Digital Competence, among other relevant contents. The conclusions express that the researchers' dominant concern is the continuing education of teachers with the incorporation of Digital Technologies (DTs), that the dominant methodology is a bibliographical review, that the most used texts are scientific articles and that there are three Teacher Digital Competency (TDC) standards that dominate educational studies. This results in the creation of new TDC standards adequate for the cultural and educational particularities of Brazil, with a pedagogical-scientific foundation linked to human formation. A new research problem is formulated for the continuation of the study.