On-life preteens: educating to digital citizenship

Abstract

In the current post-media society the media is a strong structural element within the different dimensions of existence, affecting the processes of signification of reality and construction of individual as well as social identity. This appears even more fitting if we consider the pre-adolescent phase, in which the subject experiences a hybrid and protean online dimension, where dystopian drifts and empowering potentialities coexist. In such a context, an educational design that seeks to develop technological competence tied to the concept of digital wisdom and digital citizenship, required for a critical, competent and ethical approach to the new challenges of onlife, becomes essential.