Research Summary Research Title: School’s Contribution to the Fulfilment of its Students’ Digital Citizenship in the light of the Contemporary Challenges

Zahrani, Admire

doi:10.21608/edusohag.2019.54718

Research Summary Research Title: School’s Contribution to the Fulfilment of its Students’ Digital Citizenship in the light of the Contemporary Challenges

Document Type : Original Article

Author

admire Zahrani

Educational Supervisor, Ministry of Education, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

10.21608/edusohag.2019.54718

Abstract

Research Goals/Objectives: The main objectives of this research are:
1. To lay down a theoretical framework regarding the concept of digital citizenship, its spheres of applicability, and the reasons for its attainment among students,
2. To investigate the role of the school in the fulfilment of the digital citizenship among its students,
3. To demonstrate the contributions of the educational agents and practitioners such as the teacher, the educational leader, the curriculum, and the educational environment to the development of the digital citizenship and to the fulfilment and establishment of its values among generations within the contemporary challenges.
Research Methodology
A descriptive methodology is adopted which is in congruence with the nature of this research and is deemed instrumental to achieving its objectives.
The Structure of the Research
First, a general introduction to the study is presented. The second part offers a cultural framework of the digital citizenship while third part addresses the contribution of the school to the fulfilment of digital citizenship in the light of the contemporary challenges.
Findings
1. The teacher has a great role in inculcating and enhancing the values of the digital citizenship through utilizing technology and initiating learning strategies and activities that are based on critical and innovative thinking.
2. The educational curricula contribute to the fulfilment of the digital citizenship through promoting its values, concepts, importance, spheres of applicability and its contemporary challenges throughout the different learning stages and the various teaching courses.
3. The complementary roles of the elements of the educational process at school play a major part in steering the digital transformation and in shaping the character of the digital citizen that is aware of the rational use of digital technologies.
Recommendations and Suggestions
1.The policies related to the digital citizenship in the schools have to be laid down and the mechanisms of their implementation have to be established.Likewise,the roles and the responsibilities of the elements of the educational process in the course of implementing those policies have to be assigned.
2. A field study regarding the reality of the contribution of the educational stages to the establishment the digital citizenship has to be conducted.
3. A study of the role of the universities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the fulfilment of the digital citizenship has to be conducted.

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