Competencias mediáticas en niños y niñas de 4 a 8 años del centro educativo La Providencia, provincia del Cañar, año lectivo 2018-2019

Abstract

Abstract:Media education emerges as a further need to be implemented in the curriculum of early childhood education, in order to develop consumers of responsible and capable media in order to have a critical awareness in this way teachers must to teach their students how to develop their media skills. For this reason the objective of this research was to diagnose the level of media skills in children aged 4 to 8 years at the educational center La Providencia, Cañar province, school year 2018-2019. For which we worked with a sample of 163 students, in the research worked with the inductive logical method, the technique was a survey applied to students. An objective-based questionnaire was conducted with respect to the instrument. In conclusion it is mentioned that the majority of children surveyed had a low level of media competence in the dimension of ideology and values, but reported high levels in the dimensions of technology, languages, interaction, production and dissemination and Aesthetic.