(Re)Locating Humanness in Information and Communication Technology through Global [Digital] Citizenship Education

Abstract

The utilization of ICTs in education has become one of the most important pedagogical tools in curriculum, instructions, and management of school operations. This has become more apparent in the surge of the pandemic in the last couple of years. This reflexive paper intends to re[locate] humanness in ICTs by introducing Global Citizenship Education (GCED), which is contained in one of the United Nations’ 17 SDGs 2030 Agenda (SDG 4 [4.7]) combined with Digital Citizenship Education (DCE). Moreover, the concepts of ‘onlife’ and ‘digital self’ will be briefly explained to ground the formation of ‘student identities’ as global and digital citizens without discharging their humanness. This paper will also introduce the importance of ‘translocal spaces’ and ‘third spaces’ as settings and the acknowledgments of ‘multilocalities’ and ‘multivocalities’. Furthermore, challenges and criticisms regarding GCED and DCE in ICTs will be presented with contextualized and reflexive discussions based on the experiences of the author.