The collaborative construction of a school web portal. An experience of sustainable innovation

Resumen

We present an experience part of a global study which analyses the factors that hinder or accelerate the processes of change in innovation projects involving ICT in schools.

Education policies often associate innovation with school integration of ICT, to such an extent that ICT themselves are attributed innovative potential, while overlooking the fact that it is the specific contexts in which ICT are placed that confer meaning. We start out with the idea that the potential for change that can be generated by ICT incorporation has to do with the way in which it is integrated into the school’s educational project and in the time dedicated to reflecting on its educational possibilities. Our research was based on four cases taken from a Pre-school and Primary Education School (C.E.I.P.), a Secondary Education School (I.E.S.), an Integrated Public School (C.P.I.) and a Rural Cluster Centre (C.R.A.), in Galicia (Spain) by means of a collaborative action research methodology in the usual stages: action, observation, and reflection. In this paper show the analysis of an experience in a Rural Cluster Center (C.R.A) with nine schools (second cycle pre-school and first level of primary education). Our intention is to account some of the meanings of sustainable innovation in the process of building the portal web as an educational space.