This article aims to disseminate some of the main results of the research: Development of digital skills in teaching students in Salto. Comparative study between Teaching students of the first generation of Plan Ceibal and Teaching students who did not participate in it. The research's problem question that arises is: What are the differences in the development of digital skills between Teacher Preparation students from the first generation of the implementation of Plan Ceibal and students who did not participate in it in Salto in 2017? The objective is to compare the development of digital competences between Teaching students from the first generation of the implementation of Plan Ceibal and students who did not participate in it. This research was carried out in 2017 with students who were in their second year of Teaching due to the growing importance of Digital Technologies in Education. Regarding the type of design this research presents, it is an exploratory type of investigation since, at the time the work was carried out, there was no access to antecedents in relation to the specific research problem. It is a mixed-study located at a descriptive-comparative level with two samples of cases selected for convenience. This article will address some of the twenty-one competencies analyzed in the research based on the Marco Común de Competencia Digital Docente of INTEF (2017). The area of competencies analyzed is information and informational communication: it includes digital competences that aim to identify, locate, obtain, store, organize and analyze digital information, evaluating its purpose and relevance. Among the contributions generated by the research, it is stated that in this analyzed area that there has been a slight improvement in the development of digital skills in the con Ceibal sample.