Playful Digital Literacy: theoretical and design framework in preschool


Abstract

The digital environment is conceptualized as an educational space to be inhabited, according to a socio-constructivist perspective, in which learning develops through interaction with meaningful contexts. Playful learning, based on play experience and active participation, represents a pedagogical approach aimed at promoting digital literacy, metacognitive awareness and childhood agency. This paper illustrates the theoretical and design framework of an experimental program in a preschool that aims to intentionally integrate analog and digital dimensions through the interaction between concrete materials (set designs, physical objects) and technological tools (digital animation, stop motion), according to the multimodal perspective. This integration is functional to the co-construction of meanings and reflection on the cognitive processes activated. In this perspective, digital technology acts as a dynamic and transformative environmental agent that amplifies children's expressive and cognitive possibilities.