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 subject of this research 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 "; The general objective was to make a diagnosis of the level of media competencies 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 children have low competence in the dimensions of ideology and values, reception and interaction, technology; while in the dimension of production and diffusion they have a medium competence; in the dimensions of language and aesthetics they have demonstrated high competence. It is recommended that teachers take as reference the methodological strategy that is proposed, so that they establish activities aimed at developing the various dimensions of media competencies in which students have demonstrated poor development, and thus improve digital literacy.