Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Year: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 1 SI
Page No. 5695 - 5698

The Study of Needing Ethical Education on Digital Literacy

Authors : Jungin Kwon and Seongjin Ahn

Abstract: Ethical education in the digital culture society in cyberspace is restricted to specific areas such as personal information and copyright but education about information capacity and information providing ability in cyberspace where digital natives always communicate, share and exchange is insufficient. The purpose of this study is to establish a fundamental measure for the systematic training of digital literacy ethics education based on the survey of student’s perception of digital literacy in the first and second year college students. The subjects of this study were 77 students from the first and second years of university. They divided into two groups and took the ethics education of the digital culture society for 14 weeks. For the experiment, group A conducts training appropriate to the topic of each unit and group B emphasizes the role of information receiver and information provider in cyberspace in connection with the topic of each unit and recognizes the importance of digital literacy education in cyberspace i have differentiated teaching and learning methods so that i can do it. As a result of comparing two groups, the group B got higher average score than the group A in the area of technology use ability, information provider and information receiver. In other words, digital literacy-centered digital culture social ethics education showed not only the ability to read information but also the ability to improve communication, information detection ability, SW understanding ability, relationship forming ability, documents editing and utilization ability. Therefore, ethics education centered on digital literacy must be equipped with netizens of digital cultural society which can inspire technical literacy and ethical consciousness. In order for digital literacy to be positioned as the right information communication capability of digital cultural and social ethics education, it is necessary to include the literacy ability that information users and providers voluntarily select and critically accept information in the ethics curriculum.

How to cite this article:

Jungin Kwon and Seongjin Ahn, 2017. The Study of Needing Ethical Education on Digital Literacy. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 5695-5698.

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