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SANTOS, Virgínia  e  MATA, Lourdes. Livros digitais do Plano Nacional de Leitura na educação pré-escolar: percepções dos educadores de infância. Educ. Form. Tecnol. [online]. 2013, vol.06, n.02, pp.80-99. ISSN 1646-933X.

The present article looks at the use of technologies - specifically digital books (DB) - in an educational context. It is consider the relation of the educational potential of this technological tool with the development of literacy skills in children, having as a start point a study where the opinion of the educators is collected. These assume to be current users or recent users, or simply knowing the tools but not using them. The DB considered are namely those which the Portuguese National Reading  Plan (PNL) website makes available for preschool education, in order to promote reading. The article attempts to answer questions such as: how do kindergarten teachers promote or allow the use of DB; and what benefits do they feel DB offer in terms of the promotion of reading, and what advantages and disadvantages do they recognise them to hold for the development of their own pedagogical practices, given the material and technological resources at their disposal? The study crosses a number of theoretical arguments, which indicate that the use of DB results in a range of substantial advantages. These are backed up by the opinions expressed by the kindergarten teachers, which are treated using a quantitative approach based on responses to an online questionnaire. The participants in this study were 548 kindergarten teachers from various areas of the country. They recognised more advantages than disadvantages in the use of DB. Their preferred means of using this tool was to present a book to a group of children at story time, or to use it to introduce topics for further exploitation. The main difficulties they have pointed out are the characteristics of the material, the poor quality of their ICT equipment, the poor internet connection, and the small number of computers. The responses reveal some differences in both the way in which DB are used and the advantages and disadvantages recognised, depending on the teachers’ ages.

Palavras-chave : Digital Books; Emergent Literacy; Preschool; Reading; Technologies.

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