Digital civic education

Rome (Italy). On December 1st the third formation meeting on Communication takes place at the Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences “Auxilium”.

Digital citizenship education is the theme which Prof. Pier Cesare Rivoltella and Prof. Michele Marangi will discuss, both teachers of Didactics and Technologies of Education and Learning at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan and members of CREMIT, Center for Research on Education for Media, Information, and Technology.

Their intervention concludes the Interdisciplinary Course “Learning in the era of the Network. Paths to ‘learn’ the future” organized by the Faculty of Educational Sciences “Auxilium” of Rome.

Digital civic education consolidates the role of schools and educational agencies in forming citizens who are able to participate actively in democratic life in the digital age.

The key words according to MIUR are: critical spirit and responsibility to be able to maximize the potential of technology (education, participation, creativity, and sociality) and minimize the negative ones (commercial exploitation, violence, illegal behavior, manipulated and discriminatory information).

It is necessary to accompany the complexity of change, recognizing resources and risks, to appropriate digital media, thus moving from passive consumers to critical users to creative and responsible producers of new contents and devices.

Especially invited to the encounter are Religious teachers, pedagogues, and socio-educational educators, educational psychologists, teachers of all areas and levels, youth ministry workers, priests and religious, parents and educators, and anyone who cares about the education of young people.

In previous meetings, we reiterated how creativity, flexibility, openness to change, responsibility towards the other are themselves the coordinates to rethink education in the techno-human condition and in the Digital Age era, and how important it is “to disassemble and assemble meanings” to give new generations access keys to their culture.