Alfabetización digital y cultura popular en la escuelaUna aproximación cualitativa

Abstract

The introduction of so-called Information Technology and Communication (ICT) is causing major changes in our society and school faces the difficult challenge of integrating these changes, linking educational processes to other contexts of students’ development in perspective to generate significant learning, recognizing the importance and the role that culture plays in the construction of the student. We present a socio-cultural research that is based on a perspective of qualitative analysis and whose overall objective is to analyze an educational setting mediated by ICT, in which popular culture contributes to contextualized and meaningful use of these new cultural instruments, and also to encourage awareness processes of cultural identity in children. A group of sixteen children, aged between nine and twelve years old, voluntarily participated in a total of twelve sessions of approximately two hours each, and the researchers themselves assume a dual role: teachers and observers participating. We try to answer questions related to the design of the educational experience of the elements that provides the use of ICT and literacy and construction processes of collective identity.