Competencias mediáticas en niños y niñas de Inicial 2 a cuarto grado de Educación General Básica de la Escuela John Dewey , de la ciudad de Portovelo, provincia de El Oro, Ecuador, año lectivo 2019-2020.

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Abstract:The research topic is Media competences in boys and girls from Initial 2 to 4th grade of Basic General Education of the John Dewey School, in the city of Portovelo, province of El Oro, Ecuador, school year 2019-2020 ; It aims to make a diagnosis of the level of media skills in children; the research was qualitative-quantitative; The methods used are: descriptive, inductive-deductive, analytical-synthetic and the techniques of documentary and field analysis; a survey was applied to 156 students. It is concluded that students have low competence in the dimension of ideology and values, reception and interaction, production and dissemination. While they have demonstrated high development in the dimensions of language, as well as the technology dimension and the aesthetic dimension. It is recommended that teachers consider the results obtained in this research, in order to guide their actions in the classroom to improve media skills in students, planning activities that involve ICT skills such as working with images and graphics, preparing presentations of slides, among other tools.