Online safety as a new component of digital literacy for young people

Online safety as a new component of digital literacy for young people

Автор: Tomczyk Lukasz, Eger Ludvik

Журнал: Интеграция образования @edumag-mrsu

Рубрика: Международный опыт интеграции образования

Статья в выпуске: 2 (99), 2020 года.

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Introduction. Digital literacy refers to the skills required to achieve digital competence, the confident and critical use of information and communication technology for learning, leisure, communication and future work of young people. Digital competence has a dual nature. First of all, it is the technical ability to operate programs, pages, equipment. Secondly, it is also the ability to use digital media safely. Both perspectives are important in the educational perspective, i.e. media education and socialisation. Materials and Methods. The paper presents the attempts to measure digital literacy in the area of threats resutling from using the new media in the group of upper-secondary school students (fourth educational cycle). The study was carried out using a diagnostic test with 18 questions. The research was conducted in the group of 1693 youths aged 15-21. The research was designed based on traditional methods of testing knowledge and skills. Results. The findings showed that the weakest digital literacy component was the copyright-related knowledge and the strongest area was online shopping and financial operations. All digital literacy components are interrelated. The improvement in one area leads to the development of other digital literacy elements. Despite this correlation, digital literacy is a heterogeneous concept. There are also differences regarding certain digital literacy components, determined by gender - girls obtained higher test results in terms of the soft competencies whereas boys were better with the technical aspects of digital literacy. Based on the cluster analysis, we noticed that 41.41% of the students obtained good and very good results from the competence test. More than half of the students require further education in most of the analysed areas. Discussion and Conclusion. For educational decision-makers, the findings highlight the importance of designing training programs aimed at developing students' digital literacies, with a special focus on new topics as sexting, piracy and cyberbullying.

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Digital literacy, cybersafety, youth, protection of image, cyberbullying, sexting, digital piracy, hoax, measure, poland

Короткий адрес: https://sciup.org/147221995

IDR: 147221995   |   DOI: 10.15507/1991-9468.099.024.202002.172-184

Текст научной статьи Online safety as a new component of digital literacy for young people

The rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT) has had considerable and dramatic impact on contemporary educational practice [1–5]. Digital competence has become increasingly important for social environment and individuals since 20th century [6; 7]. Therefore, many countries recognized the importance of incorporating ICT in education.

Internet penetration by country, household equipment with ICT, and experience with ICT use at home, at school and further at work, or in leisure are very important prerequisites for a lot of everyday activities and life in today society. Digital literacy (DL) has become essential in many occupations and without DL students can hardly continue to study at the university. Schools play a key role in providing ICT education. It is generally recognized that DL has positive effects on students’ skills that are essential for successful learning. To practice and promote students to be digitally literate also in new developing topics is an essential responsibility of schools.

The concept of digital competencies and digital literacy has undergone longterm development. Among the most prominent views of digital literacy, today, is that digital literacy may be understood as an inter-related set of skills or competencies necessary for success in the digital age [8]. The new topics are preferred such as cyberbullying or digital piracy. New topics requiere development of new skills and this research is aimed at digital safety among youth in the selected areas with special focus on mentioned new topics and new skills.

The purpose of this research is to identify the level of DL among the uppersecondary school students in Poland and to understand how students really use ICT and to assess whether these students are really ready to participate in different domains of today’s society in the 21st century using ICTs. The next section first defines the concept of DL and discuss various frameworks of digital competencies including new areas of interest.

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