Le sfide attuali nella comprensione dei testi nell'ambito digitale: sviluppare competenze di lettura avanzate e critiche nel contesto educativo contemporaneo

Abstract

In the actual context in which the information amount prevails over its quality, it is fundamental for the students to develop advanced and critical reading skills, in spite of the fact that the society favors speed and effectiveness. Within the educational environments, the workbooks remain essential for teachers, students and researchers. Despite all these, a gradual decrease of reading time of both, traditional and digital/electronic books can be noticed. One can remark, especially in new generations, a more fragmentary and discontinuous reading, with preference for short stories, or if longer with easily recognizable subjects and characters, after longer breaks. There is a tendency in selecting quick narratives and a greater importance is given to the image at the expense of the written text. This type of reading requires a new processing speed of the thought, which might lead to a shallow understanding of the information and to the development of some negative cognitive habits in the future. In order to avoid this risk, it becomes more essential to adopt new strategies and techniques for the interpretation of large volume of available information surfing among various sources and types of texts.