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Integrating Digital Citizenship into a Primary School Course “Ethics and the Rule of Law”: Necessity, Strategies and a Pilot Study

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Information technology has made modern life accessible and abundant, but it has also led to cyberbullying, online fraud, and other technology abuses. Enhancing digital citizenship can help solve these issues. This paper aims to figure out how to integrate digital citizenship into a primary school course named “Ethics and the Rule of Law” so that students can become good digital citizens in the new age. This paper first examined the need for this integration. Secondly, several strategies were proposed, including: content strategy (being closely linked with teaching materials), method strategy (innovating teaching methods), real-world strategy (connecting to real-world scenarios), and evaluation strategy (improving the evaluation criteria). Finally, a strategy-based pilot study was conducted. The results demonstrated that integrating digital citizenship into a moral education course could help students develop good digital ethics, behaviors, and habits.

* This work was supported by the National Social Science Fund of China under grant No. 21FJKB018.

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    Yumeng Li, Xiaomin Wu, Xianfei Luo & Yunxiang Zheng

  2. Yunshan Primary School in Yuexiu, Guangzhou, 510500, China

    Shaoshan Deng, Bin Zhao & Yufei Xie

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Li, Y. et al. (2023). Integrating Digital Citizenship into a Primary School Course “Ethics and the Rule of Law”: Necessity, Strategies and a Pilot Study . In: Li, C., Cheung, S.K.S., Wang, F.L., Lu, A., Kwok, L.F. (eds) Blended Learning : Lessons Learned and Ways Forward . ICBL 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13978. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35731-2_7

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