What is Digital Citizenship anyway? Where does it fit in the curriculum – is it Computer Science, or is it Citizenship & PSHE? Where does it sit in the wider life of the school, whether in the devices children bring into school, or the data systems that track their grades, movements and even fingerprints for the benefit of schools, inspectorate and corporate developers?
Ethical concerns have ramped up in the Tech sector in recent years, codified at summits such as theÌýÌýand theÌýÌýbut up until now there has been little interaction between the world of education and digital ethics.
Drawing on normative perspectives, school ethnographies across the 4 UK nations, and participatory co-creation approaches,ÌýTeaching for Digital CitizenshipÌýis a large ESRC-funded project which seeks to refurbish a workable and coherent moral education for justice in a digital world.
This event will begin by presenting the results of the first phase of the project’s work, a survey of secondary school teachers across the UK, showing how they understand the main challenges facing young people in the digital world today, how and where they address them in the life of the school.
Drawing on normative perspectives from data justice as articulating crucial issues of bias, discrimination, marginalisation and misrecognition which place some young people at liability precisely because of their access to the digital, we foreground a need for participatory and political engagement to accompany the engineering of technical solutions.
| 09:30 | ½¿É«µ¼º½ Introduction & Introduction to the two co-sponsoring SIGs Jacqueline Baxter & Esther Cummins |
| 09:50 | Teaching for Digital Citizenship: Data Ethics in the Classroom and Beyond – an overview of the research project, its aims and goals Dr David Lundie, University of Glasgow, Principal Investigator |
| 10:10 | The State of the Sector – reporting the draft results of a survey of Secondary teachers across the UK into the challenges, practices and aims of digital citizenship Dr Lee Shannon, University of Glasgow, Research Associate |
| 10:30 | Breakout rooms – facilitated by Jim Conroy, University of Glasgow andÌýBob Davis, University of Glasgow Discussion of the draft findings & make links between the two SIGs |
| 10:50 | Feedback and discussion |
| 11:00 | Break |
| 11:10 | Data Justice – a rights based approach to promoting ethical agency in young people’s digital interactions Dr Jeremy Knox, University of Edinburgh |
| 11:30 | Waterproofing Data – a participatory co-creation approach to resource generation for critical digital citizenship Professor João Porto de Albuquerque, University of Glasgow Urban Big Data Centre |
| 11:50 | Q&A, discussion and networking |
| 12:15 | Close of eventÌý |