POPULAR EDUCATION FOR DIGITAL LITERACY: A NEW APPROACH TO LEARNING AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT

Abstract

The central issue is the development of a methodology that incorporates the core elements of Popular Education (Freire, 1967) and addresses topics of Digital Literacy, while also analyzing the results of a workshop carried out. The work begins from the relationship between the need for specific methodologies to respond to the insurgencies of digital reality, present in our daily lives, and the importance of discussing significant real-world issues that reverberate in the digital sphere. This endeavor was inspired by work with HABLATAM (2020). The objective, therefore, is to move beyond instrumental views of technology in education and to build forms of teaching and learning that are consistent with the realities of each territory and, from that perspective, enable the discussion and rethinking of diverse proposed topics.