Digital reading platforms at basic education school

Abstract

The present article deals with the use of digital reading platforms in basic education. The main goal is, by means of a literature review and an interview with students who use the digital platform “Elefante Letrado”, to investigate the interaction possibilities of these tools and the degree of adherence by its users. To support the result analysis, the study approaches the ongoing technological revolution, the use of digital technologies on education, the digital literature and questions related to the book, and to the reading in the contemporaneity. The article concludes that the emergence of digital reading platforms reflects the current time, and that the man interaction with machines occurs in an unquestionable and intense way. Nothing more natural, therefore, than including this specific literature appreciation way in the school environment, since the quality of the works and their form of exploitation - which is the responsible process for the richness of the reading experience - has been guaranteed.