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In tandem with the larger future school movement, the cyber wellness @ Nan Chiau Primary School (NCPS) program was instituted to ensure students’ well-being in digital space. However, this program was found to be inadequate in articulating the mechanisms a community can undertake to influence the development of students’ digital skills. In this paper, we first describe the nature of new media literacy and therein the import of complex digital skills. Next, drawing on three case descriptions that are representative of the digital malpractices that occurred, an enhanced cyber wellness @ NCPS framework was developed. This framework explicates a link between student selves and the community, a condition we contend is well positioned to take us into the higher construct of digital citizenship where students’ understanding of the good practices to foster appropriate social behavior in the digital space through responsible and respectful actions is emphasized.
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Lim, W.Y., Tan, C.M., Nizam, M., Zhou, W., Tan, S.M. (2016). Toward Digital Citizenship in Primary Schools: Leveraging on Our Enhanced Cyberwellness Framework. In: Chai, C., Lim, C., Tan, C. (eds) Future Learning in Primary Schools. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-579-2_7
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