Competencia mediática y currículo en ColombiaEl caso de los estándares básicos de competencia

Abstract

In the midst of the 21st century we remain concerned with issues resembling those that troubled us a hundred years ago in terms of the media of those times. What impact do they have on people? How prepared are children, youth and adults to face such media? What role should educational institutions play? In this sense, there is a need to work in the so-called media literacy as a strategy to provide citizens with the skills that enable them to have more appropriate interactions with the media in their various manifestations. In Colombia, the Ministry of National Education (MEN for its initials in Spanish) has drawn a series of curricular guidelines and defined basic standards of competence at the basic and secondary education levels that, among other aspects, address the issue of media, lacking precision in the development of media competence in all its dimensions. This is why we set out to study the presence of media competencies in the standards defined by the Colombian Ministry of Education for basic and secondary education.