Communicating and Collaborating with Others through Digital Competence: A Self-Perception Study Based on Teacher Trainees’ Gender Rodríguez García, Antonio Manuel Cardoso Pulido, Manuel Jesús De la Cruz-Campos, Juan Carlos Martínez Heredia, Nazaret Digital competence Digital gender gap DigComp Pre-service teachers Digital literacy Digital skills Teacher training Digital competence in teaching can be understood as the set of skills, attitudes and abilities to use technologies critically and creatively, both in the personal and professional environment. Likewise, it is one of the eight key competencies for lifelong learning. In this paper, in line with the Common Digital Competence Framework (DigComp), we analyze the self-perception of teacher trainees’ digital competence to communicate and collaborate with other people. Additionally, we state the existence of statistically significant differences from a gender perspective (women/men). In this sense, we have carried out non-experimental quantitative research that has a descriptive nature. To this end, we used a questionnaire as an instrument for collecting information, with a total sample of 698 pre-service teachers in Andalusia (Spain). The results show that teacher trainees have an intermediate level in terms of their abilities to communicate and collaborate with other people through digital technologies. At the same time, significant differences are highlighted regarding participants’ gender, which implies that gender can still be considered a limitation in the use of ICTs, thereby decreasing participants’ digital competence. Finally, this study sheds light on the need to improve future teachers’ digital competence. 2022-09-26T10:45:51Z 2022-09-26T10:45:51Z 2022-08-08 journal article Rodríguez-García, A.-M... [et al.]. Communicating and Collaborating with Others through Digital Competence: A Self-Perception Study Based on Teacher Trainees’ Gender. Educ. Sci. 2022, 12, 534. [https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12080534] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/76965 10.3390/educsci12080534 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional MDPI