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The links listed in this section include articles relevant to digital literacy and citizenship. The articles have been selected because they are relevant, easy to read, and contain good information on the topic.
Youth Internet Safety Education: Aligning Programs With the Evidence Base https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1524838020916257
This article details research about the needs of internet safety education and the content of programs offered. This research suggests updating existing programs designed for offline safety with new online specific topics instead of creating all new programs. Access to the article will require signing in under an institution or purchasing the article.
This article is a report on the findings of research conducted in public schools in England on internet safety programs. The results of the research suggests the main concern of respondents was accidental navigation to inappropriate materials/ sites. However, when the researchers looked into actual data, the most common internet safety breach was children revealing too much personal/ privacy information.
This article details research done to evaluate the effectiveness of an internet safety curriculum implemented with 4th-6th graders.
In this article, the authors make note of the recent need for educational programs focusing on digital citizenship topics. This study seeks to define the term digital citizenship, identify key teaching points for students, and determine a scale to rate digital citizenship skills.
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