Abstract:

There is no question that technologies have revolutionized the way that our world operates and consequently the individuals’ life styles. On the other hand, nowadays, technological addiction is an educational problem not to be underestimated given its pervasiveness and diffusion among teenagers. Learning and cognition processes are influenced by the environmental experience, as technology has created a new environmental space to experience among digital natives. The purpose of this article is to examine some aspects of the positive and negative effects of technology in education and socialization of today's adolescents and the opportunity to use technology during text comprehension tasks (in this case on a geographical track) through a study on Italian adolescents (age m = 12.28). Methodologically, in the first part of the document, a systematic review of the literature of the issues presented in the second part of the experience described, tools used and results obtained was carried out. The conclusions of this research are that the way to overcome the problem of the negative effects of technology is to exploit its educational potential, finalizing it to the construction of meanings and social relationships. In the study conducted, the students took into consideration the use of the highly motivating and stimulating technological tool even if, the general interpretation was better in the print texts than in the digital reading.