ERIC Number: ED624489
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 14
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An Investigation of Perceptions of Gifted Students toward the Concept of Digital Citizenship
Online Submission, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International EJERCongress (2022)
Digital citizenship is an indispensable part of the new world shaped by digital developments and technology, so this study aimed to determine gifted and talented students' perceptions of digital citizenship as a leading key to the path to world citizenship. For this purpose, the qualitative analysis was used through semi-structured interview questions carried out with 40 gifted and talented high school students attending 9, 10, 11, and 12th grades in Science and Art Centers participated in Erzurum province. In addition, content analysis was used in phenomenology to analyze the conclusions of the research. As a result, the first findings, gifted and talented high school students answered the first question are accessed, security, and citizenship; the second findings are socialist, diverse source, rights, education, and virtuality in positive aspect; security, time, diversion, healthy, and belief in the negative aspect. The last findings are new laws and security measurements in supporting ways. Given the given categories, there is a need to create security measures, informational applications, and activities based on digital citizenship by means of new education program. Future studies could look at digital literacy, data management, and data security, which influence positive or negative perspectives of gifted and talented students on digital citizenship. [This paper was published in: "EJERCongress 2022 Conference Proceedings," Ani Publishing, 2022, pp. 116-129.]
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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