Crescent Digital Citizenship Week
Monday 8 - Friday 12 February 2021
As I am sure you are aware, with the necessary extra screen time and reliance on technology that Covid-19 has brought upon us, not just for our work but also socialising and keeping in touch with loved ones, that how to keep ourselves safe online has never been a more vital, prevalent topic.
Tuesday 9 February is UK Safer Internet Day and tying in closely with this at Crescent we will be running Digital Citizenship Week, beginning Monday 8 February. It is a chance for us all to look closely at how we use the internet and the technology in our lives, with a particular focus this year on:
'An Internet We Trust: exploring reliability in the online world.'
The week will be a chance to celebrate the amazing range of information and opportunities online, and its potential to inform, connect and inspire us, whilst also looking at how young people can separate fact from fiction.
We will focus on:
- how we can know what to trust online
- supporting young people to question, challenge and change the online world
It will explore how influence, persuasion and manipulation can appear online and why this may happen. It will also look at the emotional impact navigating a misleading online world can have on young people and why it is important to create a supportive, critical and questioning culture online that encourages debate and discussion.
Once young people feel more comfortable spotting fact from fiction, it is important that we then support them to take the next steps in helping to create an internet full of trustworthy and reliable information.
If you have any questions or concerns about this at all, please do get in touch.