They Need More Than Technology-Equipped Schools: Teachers’ Practice of Fostering Students’ Digital Protective Skills
The intense use of digital media among children and adolescents raises concerns about online risks. In response, digital literacy frameworks for formal education usually include a set of protective skills. Considering that teachers have the responsibility to implement such frameworks, this study inv...
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| description | The intense use of digital media among children and adolescents raises concerns about online risks. In response, digital literacy frameworks for formal education usually include a set of protective skills. Considering that teachers have the responsibility to implement such frameworks, this study investigates factors associated with teachers’ practices of fostering students’ digital protective skills. Therefore, data from a survey conducted with 315 teachers in the state of Thuringia, Germany, was analyzed. The findings indicate positive associations between the importance teachers attribute to digital protective skills, the knowledge they have about guidelines for media education, their formal media training, and their media and technology use in class. Besides, the analysis revealed associations with school type, subject taught, and teacher age. Conversely, the factors of human and technological resources did not yield significant effects in the regression model. The final model explained 48% of the variance in the teachers’ practices of fostering protective skills. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bde90468a94b4dc2b0713cf7c70738382022-12-22T02:08:03ZengCogitatioMedia and Communication2183-24392019-06-017213714710.17645/mac.v7i2.19021020They Need More Than Technology-Equipped Schools: Teachers’ Practice of Fostering Students’ Digital Protective SkillsPriscila Berger0Jens Wolling1Department Empirical Media Research and Political Communication, Technische Universität Ilmenau, GermanyDepartment Empirical Media Research and Political Communication, Technische Universität Ilmenau, GermanyThe intense use of digital media among children and adolescents raises concerns about online risks. In response, digital literacy frameworks for formal education usually include a set of protective skills. Considering that teachers have the responsibility to implement such frameworks, this study investigates factors associated with teachers’ practices of fostering students’ digital protective skills. Therefore, data from a survey conducted with 315 teachers in the state of Thuringia, Germany, was analyzed. The findings indicate positive associations between the importance teachers attribute to digital protective skills, the knowledge they have about guidelines for media education, their formal media training, and their media and technology use in class. Besides, the analysis revealed associations with school type, subject taught, and teacher age. Conversely, the factors of human and technological resources did not yield significant effects in the regression model. The final model explained 48% of the variance in the teachers’ practices of fostering protective skills.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1902digital literacydigital skillsmedia educationonline riskprotection of the private sphereprotective skillsteaching |
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| title | They Need More Than Technology-Equipped Schools: Teachers’ Practice of Fostering Students’ Digital Protective Skills |
| title_full | They Need More Than Technology-Equipped Schools: Teachers’ Practice of Fostering Students’ Digital Protective Skills |
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| title_short | They Need More Than Technology-Equipped Schools: Teachers’ Practice of Fostering Students’ Digital Protective Skills |
| title_sort | they need more than technology equipped schools teachers practice of fostering students digital protective skills |
| topic | digital literacy digital skills media education online risk protection of the private sphere protective skills teaching |
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