Educating to the generative uses of screens

Challenges and possibilities in digital photography in early childhood

Abstract

The spread of digital technologies has increased the presence of screens in subjects' lives: this increase also affects childhood. The paper reflects on the need to educate about screens as early as the first six years of children's, through the contribution of educational services and the family. The article reflects in particular on the role that digital photography can play in Media Education and in promoting the building of digital skills, fostering more conscious, more critical and more creative uses. These possibilities concern as much the reading of photographic images as the taking of shots, in order to make children "pilots" of images, so as to promote, already from early childhood, first steps in the construction of digital citizenship.