Digitalization in Practice

Chapter 7 Matters of subjects: the digital citizen in technology comprehension

Simy Kaur Gahoonia

1 Introduction

As Felicitas Macgilchrist remarks, “much discussion – euphoric and dystopian – about the kind of education necessary in the ‘twenty-first century’ revolves around digital technologies” (2019, 239, ‘scare quotes’ in the original). There is now an increased awareness among scholars, educators, researchers, politicians, parents, children, activists, industrialists, and the public at large that the ongoing digital transformation of society brings with it a need to transform basic schooling and curricula in order to equip young people for not only the complexities of this present reality of childhood, but also their supposed future ...