Do you know more than a primary school child? Media competence of the students of Year 4 of Primary Education in Andalucía
Abstract
The development of the media competence of the children and young people of our society needs from a formation or education in the use and consumption of the mass media. These must be realized from a critical perspective. For the design and inclusion of the mass media in the curriculum it is necessary to investigate firstly in the grade of attainment of the competence, situation that we present in this paper. Concretely we offer the results reached in a study on the achievement of the media competence in students of 4th level of Primary Education, carried out in Andalusia. To obtain the information a questionnaire was applied online. The results show the existence of three levels in the development of the media competence and significant differences between different variables, as sex and age.
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