DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP MOVEMENT IN SCHOOL

"<< Background >>According to the surveys conducted in partner schools before the project implementation, students and parents' safe internet usage skills were low has been detected. This is also a good digital perception of being a citizen, that is, within the framework of rights, law and responsibilities in the virtual environment as in real life; ethic. It has begun to create the necessity to act by taking into account the perception of a digital citizen.A digital citizen is someone who can criticize when using information and communication resources and who knows the ethical consequences of their online behavior.Digital citizens do not abuse technology and promote correct and ethical behavior when communicating and collaborating in the digital world. In this context, by using Erasmus+'s digital transformation priorities on the way to become a good digital citizen, the competencies of the teachers were taken from the Global Education Center B.V course center, which we decided together with the partners.We carried out a complex study with partners in this project to raise awareness of families and children, by increasing digital citizenship skills, the problems that have recently emerged in the cyber environment have been resolved.<< Objectives >>The goals set in this project to improve teachers' professional development and key competencies are as follows: -To teach how to use digital technologies in a responsible and effective way by developing digital citizenship skills, also acquire preparing skills of ""Digital Citizenship Student Education Modules"", so all dimensions of digital citizenship, to be applied in their classrooms.-To ensure guidance for students to transfer their knowledge about conscious media use to daily life and development by cooperating effectively with teachers in partner institutions and sharing their practices, on-site training experience, both institutionally and among educators, in the European dimension.The goals set in our project with the priority of improving digital skills and security for students are as follows: -To enable them to learn safe applications and programs that will improve their digital skills.The goals set for the school are: -To make ""Safe Digital School Policy” a school culture by taking measures regarding the implementation of the developed student education modules The goal set for families is:- To increase the ability to adapt digital citizenship skills to daily life with the ""Safe Digital Family trainings""module.<< Implementation >>Project Management and Dissemination- ensuring high quality management of the project activities, the smooth operation and cooperation between the partners and the national agency, as well as the efficient and on-time development of the work.Transnational Meeting in Riga - the project partners met face to face for the first time and shared their views on their methods for the implementation of the project process. A comprehensive plan was prepared with a detailed schedule of project activities and evaluation and dissemination of project results.LTT in Netherlands - Key competencies of teachers were developed with the ""Digital Citizenship Practices at School"" training. The infrastructure of the policy to be developed in the context of this project at the school has been prepared.LTT in Italy- Digital citizenship course contents for Students and Families were determined in the activity held in this institution. And the sample application was made.Last Transnational Meeting in Turkiye- Final meeting of the project, the emphasis was on the evaluation of the activities carried out in the project and the post- assessment results from the students.<< Results >>Following the project activities, 3 course modules were created.1st module: This is the student course module that explains the chameleon, the mascot of the project, in the context of digital citizenship created by Turkish partner.2nd module: It was created to ensure that students use technology consciously. It was created by the Italian school.3rd module was designed by the partner institution in the Netherlands and is a digital citizenship roadmap for families.To disseminate the project other than these modules:1. Project promotional film (video format)2. Chameleon LINT (mascot) introduction (video format)3.Project activities newsletters (single PDF for 4 activities in total)4. Results of statistical analysis conducted to test the effectiveness of the project for studentsIt is among the results we uploaded to the Erasmus Project results page of our project.5. Our project website https://digitalschool.lv/6. National and institutional activities to promote the results of the project for partner institutions, local school, parent and society.7. The project's social media pages on Facebook and Instagram, Twinspace page established to promote the project and inform the public about its activities."