The Insertion of Digital Citizenship in Online Learning

Abstract

The urgency of teaching online pushed teachers and students to deal with digital devices and internet. Meanwhile, only some teachers aware of digital citizenship aspects and insert it in their teaching and learning process. This descriptive qualitative research aimed at describing the insertion of digital citizenship in online learning. There are ten English teachers from some schools in Bali who participated in this research. The data were gathered by using open questionnaire, interview, and focus group discussion. The list of questionnaire questions, list of interview questions and list of questions for focus group discussion were used as instruments of this research. The data gathered showed that only 50% of the subjects knew digital citizenship but all of them taught and practiced digital citizenship in their online classes directly or indirectly. They mostly practiced it by informing names, kinds and functions of digital devices, giving instructions on how to use the digital devices while modelling the habit of good digital citizens, and inserting some rules of using digital devices.