Dr Jeremy Knox together with Dr John Gordon (UEA), Professor Sigrid Hartong (Helmut-Schmidt University), Professor Bob Davis (University of Glasgow), Professor James Conroy (University of Glasgow) and Dr David Lundie (University of Glasgow), will facilitate a symposium as part of the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) at the University of Glasgow, 22-25th August 2023.
Symposium: 'Teaching for Digital Citizenship: Data Ethics in the Lived Experience of Secondary Students and Teachers'
This symposium brings together theoretical and empirical contributions from the launch of two large projects funded by the UK ESRC, and one German BMBF research project to critically enhance understandings of ICT as of political, ethical and sociological import not only in the UK and Germany but internationally. Treating of these issues at the level of information theory and data justice, implications and examples are drawn upon from Scotland, England and Germany, but the conceptual and digital aspects relate to patterns common to educational technologies globally.
This event brings normative resources to bear to refurbish a workable, coherent moral education for the challenges of digital citizenship. The discussion aims to introduce major funded projects of European relevance, make participants aware of the normative resources associated with these projects and highlight empirical dimensions to follow in 2024-25. These issues have an urgency and relevance that has not been widely addressed in the ICT education field. The aim of our discussion is to enrich the dialogue between ICT educators, the philosophy of education and leading research in digital and data ethics. A key aim of the discussion is to furnish a vocabulary for interrogating the ethical challenges of teaching for digital citizenship.