Abstract
Online world demands new sets of characteristics to warrant the ability to cope with its constantly evolving challenges and risks. Digital citizenship, a concept introduced, focusing on new ways of learning and exploring in an online environment safely, securely, and appropriately. The evolution of digital citizenship could be seen along with the changes in technology used in education, and requires students to engage with technology longer hours than before. Thus, how can we approach the challenge of using technology actively and immersively, while maintaining sanity and wellness, and building resilience to potential online risk? Thus, this conceptual paper proposes a new concept of digital citizenship by bridging the notions of wellness and resilience from the psychology discipline into digital citizenship, for its feasibility in the Malaysian educational context. This paper argues the necessity and potential integration of the spiritual element that is lacking in the existing digital citizenship concept, which has proven its significance in enhancing wellness and resilience of adolescent in the literature. It is hoped this fourth wave of proposed digital citizenship concept would bring fruitful discussion and contribute to a better understanding of how one might better socialize online or participate with others in a positive and meaningful way. Thus, only then, digital resilience and digital wellness will be established and a better future online society will be formed.
Highlights
1.1 Digital Issues of AdolescentsTremendous efforts in diffusing technology in education, exposing the youngster to the potential harms associated with the use of technology in education
This paper argues the necessity and potential integration of the spiritual element that is lacking in the existing digital citizenship concept, which has proven its significance in enhancing wellness and resilience of adolescent in the literature
It is seen that in educational technology perspective, the weightage concern of digital citizenship is on empowering the ability of an individual to use technology safely, wisely, responsibly, critically, productively, civically, and resiliently by actively participating in an online society
Summary
Tremendous efforts in diffusing technology in education, exposing the youngster to the potential harms associated with the use of technology in education (e.g. social and mental health problems). It is found that higher online skills and online engagement on social and leisure contents are significantly increase online misbehavior (Bozoglan et al, 2014; Park et al 2014) It occurs when the internet is used to relieve and escape from the negative feelings, by seeking pleasure negatively, to perpetrate others or themselves. Spirituality, on the other hand, has the ability to increase emotion control, prosocial and moral behavior, and the wholeness of adolescent wellbeing (Žukauskienė, 2014). It serves as a strong inner strength to one's willingness and grit to perform positive behavior in any circumstance throughout one's lifetime (Hamzah et al, 2010; Ismail & Rahman, 2012; Waldo, 2014). The pertinent digital wellness and psychological issues demand new way of intervention, by looking on the affective aspects, especially on spirituality, to optimizing the effective and meaningful use of technology among adolescents
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