Developing digital citizenship in children aged from 3 to 9. A pilot project in the portuguese region of Odivelas

• Autor(a) principal: Tomé, Vitor
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Abreu, Belinha
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/9054
• topic: Digital literacy; Community

This paper focuses on the project «Digital Citizenship Education for Dem-ocratic Participation» (2015-2018), which centers on empowering children (aged 3 to 9) in three related contexts: family, school and community. We be-gan training 25 Preschool and Primary school teachers who developed digital media literacy activities involving 366 of their students. Activities focused on producing and discussing on media, online news analysis, communicating and learning through media and advertisement critical analysis. In March 2016, we began a longitudinal action research involving eight out of the 25 teachers who agreed to develop digital citizenship activities with their students. Parents and their children were interviewd on digital literacy practices and mediation, as well as the boards of local community entities dealing with children. Results showed that through professional development training, teachers were able to develop digital literacy activities without deviating from their previous peda-gogical plans.