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Digital Citizenship Education Handbook (Edition 2022)
Place of publication | Year of publication | Collation: 
Strasbourg | 2022 | 135 p.
ISBN/ISSN: 
ISBN 978-92-871-8779-6
Author: 
Janice Richardson; Elizabeth Milovidov
Corporate author: 
Council of Europe
Region: 
Europe and North America
Global

 

Digital citizenship competences define how we act and interact online. They comprise the values, attitudes, skills and knowledge and critical understanding necessary to responsibly navigate the constantly evolving digital world, and to shape technology to meet our own needs rather than to be shaped by it. The Digital citizenship education handbook offers information, tools and good practice to support the development of these competences in keeping with the Council of Europe’s vocation to empower and protect children, enabling them to live together as equals in today’s culturally diverse democratic societies, both on- and offline.

The Digital citizenship education handbook is intended for teachers and parents, education decision makers and platform providers alike. It describes in depth the multiple dimensions that make up each of 10 digital citizenship domains, and includes a fact sheet on each domain providing ideas, good practice and further references to support educators in building the competences that will stand children in good stead when they are confronted with the challenges of tomorrow’s digital world. The Digital citizenship education handbook is consistent with the Council of Europe’s Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture and compatible for use with the Internet literacy handbook.
 

 

Resource Type: 
Curriculum, teaching-learning materials and guides
Theme: 
Civic / Citizenship / Democracy
Media & information literacy / digital citizenship
Globalisation and social justice / International understanding
Diversity / cultural literacy / inclusive
Level of education: 
Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE)
Primary education
Secondary education
Non-formal education