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Teaching for digital citizenship: Digital ethics in the classroom and beyond.
Project description
Project Lead:
Dr David Lundie
Duration:
1/12/2022 – 30/11/2024 (24 months)
Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Research theme:
- the uses of technology in teaching and learning, in UK compulsory education
The four nation focus:
- UK
Project overview
- Aims
This project focuses on the aims, challenges and practices of teaching for digital citizenship in secondary schools across the UK. It will develop a range of strategies, resources and practices that help teachers, teacher educators, and students to shape ethical environments in the interfaces of the digital with personal, social, civic and global citizenship.
- Description
This project responds to the challenges and opportunities young people face in a fast-paced digitally connected world. We are interested in the ways that digital citizenship is enacted in secondary schools across the UK – whether in Computer Science, Citizenship, PSHE, Business Studies, Modern Studies – as well as in the day-to-day life of schools, in everything from setting homework through virtual learning environments, to biometric data to store students’ lunch money.
Working with the Urban Big Data Centre and the Centre for Technomoral Futures we will seek to engage philosophers of digital ethics, software development corporations serving the education sector, schools and policy-makers in the four nations of the UK in discussions about how to furnish young people with a sense of agency and an understanding of data justice. A data justice approach recognises that data systems are not value-neutral, and that ethical dilemmas need to be understood in relation to social and political factors, not only in the design of technical solutions.
- Project partners
- Partnership plans
We are forming long-lasting partnerships with schools and young people in the four nations of the UK, spending time observing good practice in digital citizenship education, having inclusive discussions with teachers and young people, listening to their needs and suggestions in order to design new curriculum materials, and evaluating the impact of the new curriculum on young people’s day-to-day lived experiences online.
This will enable the project to address the challenges facing young people as they approach questions of data justice and navigate the creation of their digital civic identities.- Researchers
David Lundie, (PI)
James Conroy
Bob Davis
Jeremy Knox
Joao Porto de Albuquerque
