Name: Digital Citizenship in the Middle Years: A Grade 6 Case Study
Start: 2026-09-19T14:30:00+0200
End: 2026-09-19T15:30:00+0200

Working Together To Support Learning

Digital Citizenship in the Middle Years: A Grade 6 Case Study

Saturday September 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm CEST

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This workshop is designed to share how Digital Citizenship has been woven into the pastoral and ICT curriculum to support students, focusing on Grade 6. This presentation’s starting point was a survey to gather more awareness of how students use tech, which informed both designing a pastoral unit “Our Digital Lives,” as well revamping the Digital Citizenship components in the ICT curriculum. Further development is being done in the domain of algorithmic literacy, or, pedagogical methods that explore how algorithms influence all aspects of digital life, from online identities to the types of content that young learners are “fed” on social media and online gaming platforms.

We will explore these questions:
-How do students interpret and critique what they see online?
-To what extent do online conversations intervene in classroom socialisation?
-How do we teach younger learners about digital and algorithmic literacy?
-What are the best practices for curriculum development, given the rapid pace of technological change and the continual development of AI?

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