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Easy Steps to Help Your Child Become a Digital Citizen
Place of publication | Year of publication | Collation: 
Strasbourg | 2020 | 16 p.
Author: 
Janice Richardson; Veronica Samara
Corporate author: 
Council of Europe
Region: 
Global

A guide to help you use your experience as a citizen to guide your children on their path towards digital citizenship.
Young people today inhabit a world that has been transformed by digital technologies, effortlessly enabling connectedness through social media and access to vast quantities of information. Making sense of this hyper rich information and engaging effectively and responsibly poses a whole set of new challenges for educators as they seek to prepare young people as citizens, exercising their rights and participating effectively in the affairs of the community.
Parents, and “non-tech” grandparents too, can help children become digital citizens. In this guide, we explain some of the easy steps to follow, to help children master what it takes to act responsibly and respectfully online.

 

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
Keywords: 
Democratic citizenship
Digital citizenship
Information literacy
Wellbeing