Talking About Digital Citizenship.

According to Dewey’s thought education is a process of socialization that concerns each individual, understood not as a separate autonomous entity, but as an individual in relation to all other individuals. The American philosopher and pedagogist also maintains that the subject’s education derives from his participation in the life of the commu- nity through a process that begins almost from birth and which continually develops his potential by “imbuing his conscience, building his habits, training his ideas and awakening his feelings and emotions.” It is, essentially, a process of active citizenship, a concept that has been much reconsidered in recent months, even if expressed in terms of “digital active citizenship”. The transition from the analogue to the digital world represented, and the pan- demic has inevitably accelerated this transition process, an epochal change, on a par with the Industrial Revolu- tion. Talking today about active citizenship means referring to a process of digital civic education, whereby every subject is able to use digital technologies as an aid for active citizenship and social inclusion, collaboration with others and creativity in pursuit of one’s personal goals or the social goals of the community. This means the ability to use, access, filter, evaluate, create, schedule and share digital content, and also to manage and protect infor- mation, content, data and digital identities, as well as recognize software, devices, artificial intelligence or robots, and to interact effectively with them. Interacting with digital technologies and contents presupposes a reflective and critical attitude, marked by curiosity, open and interested in the future of their evolution and also requires an ethical, safe and responsible approach in the use of these tools.