Digital Citizenship Education
What is Digital Citizenship?
Digital citizenship is the capacity to participate actively, continuously and responsibly in communities online and offline, through competent and positive engagement with digital technologies (by creating, working, sharing, socialising, investigating, playing, communicating and learning).
What is Digital Citizenship Education?
Digital citizenship education is the empowerment of learners of all ages through education or the acquisition of competences for learning and active participation in a digital society to exercise and defend their democratic rights and responsibilities online, and to promote and protect human rights, democracy and the rule of law in cyberspace.
Who is a Digital Citizen?
Digital citizen is a person who is able to competently and positively engage with evolving digital technologies; participates actively, continuously and responsibly in social and civic activities; is involved in a process of lifelong learning (in formal, informal and non-formal settings) and is committed to defending continuously human rights and dignity.
Children and young people spend a lot of time nowadays connected to digital technology.
To communicate, learn, work and play responsibly in this environment, they need to develop a whole range of competences that will enable them to harness the benefits and opportunities and overcome the pitfalls they will encounter. This is the goal of Digital Citizenship Education (DCE): to provide young citizens with innovative opportunities to develop the values, attitudes, skills, and knowledge necessary for every citizen to participate fully and assume their responsibilities in society.
