Digital competence of Primary School students from a gender perspective: knowledge, attitudes and practices

Abstract

This article seeks to investigate from a gender perspective the synergies and divergences between the digital knowledge, skills, attitudes and practices of girls and boys in 6th grade of Primary School. To this end, the study design is an exploratory sequential mixed method divided into two phases: an initial multiple case study from an ethnographic perspective, followed by a phase in which a sample of 588 schoolchildren in Galicia took the ECODIES digital competence assessment test. The results reveal substantial gender differences and that the mother's socio-cultural capital is fundamental to the acquisition of digital competence for the student.