Orientarsi nel digitale e comprendere i social media, tra percezioni e uso reale. Una ricerca-azione nel savonese per l’educazione digitale nelle scuole secondarie di secondo grado

The article describes the outcomes of an action-research conducted with adolescents to investigate their perceptions and actual uses of digital technologies and social networks. The course, carried out with 450 pupils of a secondary school, involved the administration of a questionnaire to collect data and obtain material to proceed to critical reflections and useful workshop activities to improve the perception of the time spent with touchscreen devices and especially with the smartphone and to encourage a more conscious and more critical use of these tools. In the second phase of the research, in fact, through a problematizing attitude, the data were examined and analyzed by both learners and teachers, detecting a desire on the part of adolescents to improve their modes of use and a need on the part of teachers to explore these issues in greater depth.