EDUCATING FOR RESPONSIBLE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Panel introduction. In the digital age, freedom is often reduced to online interactions, leading to a depersonalized society shaped by digital media. This transformation profoundly affects our behaviour, perception, and social interactions. Education is crucial in helping us understand this shift, preventing a digital panopticon (Byung-Chul, 2015) and promoting active societal participation and critical thinking. Integrating digital technologies in education presents opportunities and challenges, requiring awareness and pedagogical sensitivity from all stakeholders. Effective digital education involves promoting the conscious, critical, and creative use of technology, resisting reductionist views of knowledge, and addressing the risks of social exclusion and online harassment. The panel was organized to address these challenges and possibilities from various angles and disciplines. The discussions that derived from the presentations thus high-lighted the importance of ethical, critical, and inclusive approaches to digital education, aiming to foster responsible digital transformation and active citizenship. Insights from these discussions are here structured around three overall perspectives, namely, ethical perspectives, critical mindsets, and inclusion.