Digital Literacy and Cyberconvivencia in Primary Education

Abstract

Education is currently facing a critical challenge: literacy of children for digital culture and digital citizenship. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is a socializing instance of childhood. The universal use that children make of ICT today broadens the context of interpersonal relationships. The aim of this study is to present the collected data from a sample of 3rd to 6th grades of Primary Education. The objective is defining their Internet and mobile phones usage patterns, and to analyze which cyberconvivencia related communicative processes are established. Internet usage patterns are very similar between both stages, although there are some differences on the activities that take place on the Internet. The data presented in this study shows the need of focussing action from earlier ages.