Digital poverty, one in three children does not know how to use a browser for educational activities

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07 June 2021 They are called 'digital natives' and this year, due to Covid, they have worked mainly in Dad, but as many as 29.3% of these children are unable to download a file from a school platform; 32.8% do not know how to use a browser for teaching activities; 11% are unable to share a screen during a call with Zoom.

It emerges from the first pilot survey on digital educational poverty carried out by Save The Children which recalls, Istat data, how the level of absolute poverty among minors in 2020 has reached the top since 2005: in Italy there are one million and 346 thousand (13.6 %), + 209 thousand on 2019.