DEVELOPING THE POTENTIAL OF THAI YOUTH TO BECOME DIGITAL CITIZENS IN A NEW NORMAL SOCIETY

Abstract

Objectives of this research article were: 1. To study the Thai youth potentials development for becoming digital citizenship, 2. To develop the e-Learning curriculum Developing the potential of Thai youth towards digital citizenship 3. To conduct the trial the e-learning curriculum with secondary school students. Year 3 Ayutthaya Wittayalai School, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province conducted with the mixed methods. The qualitative research using in-depth interviews and quasi-experimental research using a single group to measure results before and after the experiment. Tools used to include In-depth interviews, assessment forms, and e-Learning courses. The qualitative data were analyzed using content analysis. and analyze quantitative data with statistics, frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and dependent t-test values.

The results of the research were found that: 1. Developing the potential of Thai youth to become digital citizens in the new normal society had the following components: 1.1 Family institution care taking and a good role model, 1.2 Educational institutions Organizing learning courses to cultivate social, economics, politicals, and religious values. 1.3 Developing digital citizenship skills, including maintaining a good self-identity, maintaining personal information, critical analytical thinking, screening time allocation, dealing with online threats, managing information that users left online, keeping oneself safe online and ethical use of technology, 1.4 Effective tools for organizing learning. 2. Developing an E-learning curriculum consisting of 3 learning sets: 1. general knowledge 2. perspective skills, self-awareness 3. perspective skills Knowing others. 3. The results of the trial of the e-Learning curriculum was found that students were digitally intelligent after studying. higher than before studying with statistically significant value at .01 level.