<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Education for sustainable development (ESD) challenges traditional curricula and formal schooling in important ways. ESD requires systemic thinking, interdisciplinarity and is strengthened through the contributions of all disciplines. As with any transformative societal and technological shift, new questions arise when educators are required to venture into unchartered waters. Research has led to some interesting findings concerning digital literacies in the K-12 classroom. One finding is that a great deal of digital media learning is happening outside the traditional classroom space and is taking place in the afterschool space (Prensky, 2010). Understanding the nature of learning in the afterschool space and bridging the current divide between formal schooling and the learning happening online is critical to the establishment of core ESD values and skills, namely ethical online communities and the development of respectful, tolerant global digital citizens.</p></abstract>

Education for sustainable development (ESD) challenges traditional curricula and formal schooling in important ways. ESD requires systemic thinking, interdisciplinarity and is strengthened through the contributions of all disciplines. As with any transformative societal and technological shift, new questions arise when educators are required to venture into unchartered waters. Research has led to some interesting findings concerning digital literacies in the K-12 classroom. One finding is that a great deal of digital media learning is happening outside the traditional classroom space and is taking place in the afterschool space (Prensky, 2010). Understanding the nature of learning in the afterschool space and bridging the current divide between formal schooling and the learning happening online is critical to the establishment of core ESD values and skills, namely ethical online communities and the development of respectful, tolerant global digital citizens.

Digital Citizenship in the Afterschool Space: Implications for Education for Sustainable Development

Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability

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Education for sustainable development (ESD) challenges traditional curricula and formal schooling in important ways. ESD requires systemic thinking,...

Digital Citizenship in the Afterschool Space: Implications for Education for Sustainable Development

Published Online: Oct 06, 2015

Page range: 23 - 34

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jtes-2015-0002

Keywords
digital media, education for sustainable development, New Literacies, digital citizenship, teacher education

© by Patrick Howard

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Digital Citizenship in the Afterschool Space: Implications for Education for Sustainable Development

Published Online: Oct 06, 2015

Page range: 23 - 34

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jtes-2015-0002

Keywordsdigital media, education for sustainable development, New Literacies, digital citizenship, teacher education

© by Patrick Howard

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
digital media, education for sustainable development, New Literacies, digital citizenship, teacher education