Digital Citizenship Framework and Competencies
1. Digital Citizenship Frameworks
In recent years digital and online approaches have increasingly been incorporated into our teaching and learning practices. This trend accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic when educators were forced to adopt Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) strategies. An ever greater role for educational technology has elicited much debate as to what IS responsible and ethical behaviour for educators and students when studying with technology, and particularly online.
Numerous digital citizenship frameworks have been proposed. In 2017, UNESCO synthesized a number of these frameworks into a 'refined' framework that identified five main areas of concern. Areas where ideally both educators and students needed be capacitated to operate safely and with respect to others. These areas included,
