This article presents the results of two surveys among parents of primary school age children. Thes urveys are a part of undamental research, funded by the Bulgarian Science Fund – Digital Competencies and Media Education at Pre-school and Primary School Age (DN 05/8 14.12.2016) with coordinator Prof. Dr Rumyana Papancheva from the University „Prof. Dr Asen Zlatarov”, Bourgas. The author is the leader of the Working Group „Research of the connection between Reading and Digital literacy“as a part of the project. The accent in this article is on the results of parents’ surveys and a comparison between 2018 and new one – 2020 – there are analyzed parents’ attitudes towards a formation of digital literacy of their children.

Contemporary children live in a digital era and it is almost impossible for them not to be tempted by technologies. This article presents some interesting results from Bulgarian project „Digital Competencies and Media Education at Pre-school and Primary School Age” (National Science Fund; Н05/8 14.12.2016). In 2018 there were interviewed 637 children from 13 Bulgarian towns. The focus in this article is only 8 years old students and their digital habits. The author is a Member of the team of the COST project ‘Digital literacy and multimodal practices of young children’ (Action IS1410) – DigiLitEY. In March 2019 in Manchester on the final project’s meeting of DigiLitEY were presented results connect ed with the key participants for this COST’s project – up to 8 years old students. This article analyses this aged group and their attitudes of digital technologies.

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