Abstract
This study aims to investigate the role of educational leaders in students’ acquisition of digital citizenship and technology use. The research study group consists of school principals, assistant principals, and teachers working in Istanbul. In this study, the case study technique, one of the qualitative research designs, was used to describe the current situation in detail regarding the use of technology and the development of digital citizenship behaviors. The data were obtained with a semi-structured interview form, and content analysis was made. The results explain the roles of educational leaders in developing technology ethics in students, ensuring that students use technology safely, preventing students from misusing technology, and raising a sense of responsibility towards technology as required by the age.
Highlights
The new digital age has brought extraordinary changes in technological developments
The themes and sub-themes that emerged from these analyses are presented below
This section includes the sub-themes of empathy, role modelling, curricula, and increasing student awareness under the theme ‘technology ethics’, one of the themes obtained from teacher opinions
Summary
The new digital age has brought extraordinary changes in technological developments. The way of accessing and using information in most people has begun to change. Due to the rapid increase in internet and social media use and the increase in screen time, technology or internet addiction comes to the fore. This type of addiction shows the same reactions in the human brain as drug and alcohol addiction (Briggs, 2012). Thanks to the safe and appropriate use of technology, students may not be greatly affected by the harmful effects of technology addiction in the 21st century For this reason, it is understood that educational leaders should provide digital leadership to students to develop their digital citizenship skills in educational environments
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