Lost on the digital island. Reading practices on screens in teacher training

Abstract

This article arises from the research "Reading on screens: practices and representations of digital reading in teacher training" as a complement to the Master's thesis in Educational Technology: "Reading on screens: reading practices in digital media, from the perspective of adolescents" (University of Buenos Aires).

The objective was to give an account of what happens with reading practices in digital media and the representations that 1st year students have of physical education teachers, about these procedures.

The aim was to carry out a qualitative approach, from an inductive logic, which sought the generation of categories of analysis that would allow to know the phenomenon in depth. Grounded theory design, constant comparative method and theoretical sampling were used. An intentional sample of 1st year students was taken as an analysis unit and, through the observation of reading practices and in-depth interviews, it was aimed at analyzing the voices of the protagonists themselves.

The purpose of this work was the generation of conceptual categories from the implementation of didactic tools for the development of comprehensive readings in digital media, at the upper level.