Comparison of Students’ and Teachers’ Opinions Toward Digital Citizenship Education

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the temporary interruption of educational activities in the classroom. Digitalization of the classrooms emerged as a need following that process. The objective of this study is to compare the digital citizenship levels of teacher candidates studying in...

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Autores principales: Hasan Tangül, Emrah Soykan
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:3dd5a4e4270340c39188169d767341f42021-11-08T04:45:08ZComparison of Students’ and Teachers’ Opinions Toward Digital Citizenship Education1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.752059https://doaj.org/article/3dd5a4e4270340c39188169d767341f42021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.752059/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the temporary interruption of educational activities in the classroom. Digitalization of the classrooms emerged as a need following that process. The objective of this study is to compare the digital citizenship levels of teacher candidates studying in the last year at the departments of classroom teaching and primary school classroom teachers and to reveal their needs. A total of 38 primary school classroom teachers and 27 classroom teacher candidates in the last year of teaching programs in North Cyprus participated in the research. This descriptive study was designed as a case study, which is a qualitative research approach. The data of the study were gathered within the frame of a grounded theory coding process and were analyzed through descriptive analysis, content analysis and the constant comparison technique. The digital citizenship levels of the classroom teachers and teacher candidates were analyzed according to the sub-dimensions of digital citizenship. As a result of the research, it was found that the digital citizenship sub-dimension scores of the classroom teachers were higher than the teacher candidates and that the teacher candidates needed digital citizenship education.Hasan TangülEmrah SoykanFrontiers Media S.A.articlecommunication in COVID-19digital citizenshipdigital citizenship educationdigitalizationdigital transformationPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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topic communication in COVID-19
digital citizenship
digital citizenship education
digitalization
digital transformation
Psychology
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digital citizenship
digital citizenship education
digitalization
digital transformation
Psychology
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Hasan Tangül
Emrah Soykan
Comparison of Students’ and Teachers’ Opinions Toward Digital Citizenship Education
description The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the temporary interruption of educational activities in the classroom. Digitalization of the classrooms emerged as a need following that process. The objective of this study is to compare the digital citizenship levels of teacher candidates studying in the last year at the departments of classroom teaching and primary school classroom teachers and to reveal their needs. A total of 38 primary school classroom teachers and 27 classroom teacher candidates in the last year of teaching programs in North Cyprus participated in the research. This descriptive study was designed as a case study, which is a qualitative research approach. The data of the study were gathered within the frame of a grounded theory coding process and were analyzed through descriptive analysis, content analysis and the constant comparison technique. The digital citizenship levels of the classroom teachers and teacher candidates were analyzed according to the sub-dimensions of digital citizenship. As a result of the research, it was found that the digital citizenship sub-dimension scores of the classroom teachers were higher than the teacher candidates and that the teacher candidates needed digital citizenship education.
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