Progress and challenges in promoting educational innovation with emerging and interactive technologies

In this fast-paced world of changes in which we live, information and communications technologies (ICT), especially the Internet, social networks and the Web 2.0, are broadening the horizons of citizens from all walks of life, particularly in the educational field. Didactics as an area of knowledge, which has relied on educational technology since the seventies, now has the opportunity to give form and content to educational technology research of recent decades due to the key role such research plays in designing and determining new teaching models. As Prensky says, "the problem is not only changing technology, but also the conception we have of learning". The use of ICTs in education must move away from both technological and educational determinism and open up new avenues towards a systemic model that addresses the current "cognitive transformation", while accepting the complexity of the educational phenomenon and the diversity of variables that must be taken into account in the process. This is the main challenge of education in today's e-society, where learning is increasingly ubiquitous, breaking the limits of time and space.