Migrations, Digitalizations, and Teaching Practice in Argentina

Abstract

The use of digital books entails the diversification of digital-based format components. The use of hypertextual links modifies the reading process by incorporating new cognitive competencies which widen the meaning which authors originally gave to their work. Having studied this change from our first research (Esnaola Horacek, 2003) to the current scenario in the world, and more specifically in Argentina, it can be concluded that screens have gained room and practice with very relevant ubiquity and transparency. We support the idea that this changing process in formats starts generating “cognitive residues” (San Martín Alonso, 1995, p. 158) in the “Alphabetic Mind” (Havelock, 1982) inherent in the reading and writing processes by incorporating the new processes of “kaleidoscopic reading” (Murray, 1997). This process impacted on the walls of all institutions, especially of schools, transforming paper surfaces into screens. Data obtained will help us reflect on the impact that all these changes have on the development of both the critical reader and the creative writer, starting from teachers and the multiple transformations aiming at renewing “classical school textbooks”. We also seek to open reading to the multiple meanings underlying our contemporary world through hypermedia which invite us to go through “the garden of forking paths”, anticipated by Borges in 194941...