Reading Comprehension on Screen: A Free Software Educational Proposal

The increasing digitalization of social life has substantially modified everyday practices, including teaching -learning processes. The aim of this article is to analyze digital reading in a free software educational community. The experience was carried out on April 22, 2023 in the city of Cordoba (Argentina) with children of different ages in the Latin American Festival of Free Software Installation. Based on a qualitative methodology, with the incorporation of some ethnographic tools, data were collected from the reading situations observed in the intervention. We used the following theoretical foundations: ludic narratives and video games, digital reading in a hybrid context (coexistence of paper and screen) and free software in education. The data collected were analyzed with grounded theory procedures to construct the following categories of analysis of the digital reading comprehension of children: literal comprehension, inferential comprehension, inferential comprehension of literary elements and comprehension of the ludic structure and. We conclude that reading on screen mediated by free software shows a cognitive complexity that allows the critical review of the influence of GAFAMs in the educational community and that benefits the strengthening of the cultural mesh.