DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP SKILLS OF CHIANGMAI COMMERCIAL TECHNOLOGYCAL COLLEGE STUDENTS

Abstract

              The objectives of this article were to: 1) Study the state of Social Studies instruction of Chiangmai Commercial Technological College students and to 2) Study the digital citizenship skills of Chiangmai Commercial Technological College students. The samples used in this study included 6 Social Studies teachers of Chiangmai Commercial Technological College and 59 second-year and third-year vocational students. The tools used in this research comprised of set 1: structured interview form regarding problems with Social Studies instruction interpolated in promoting the students’ digital citizenship skills and set 2: questionnaire about characteristics of students’ digital citizenship. The data were analyzed in form of analytical description, percentage, mean ( ) and standard deviation (S.D.). The research results were as follows. The state of Social Studies instruction of Chiangmai Commercial Technological College students showed that the administrators set the policy for Social Studies instruction by using various methods, encouraging learners to learn by doing, preparing teaching materials in accordance with the contents and organizing student-centered instructional process. According to the problems with Social Studies instruction, most interviewees commented that they had the problems with learners, such as they did not understand the contents, lacked attention and did not realize the importance of Social Studies learning, lacked analytical thinking skills and the skills for searching knowledge by oneself. The overall students' digital citizen skills were at the high level. When considering each aspect, it was found that the means of students’ digital citizen skills were at the highest level, namely self- defense/other protection. The followings were self-esteem/other respects and learning, developing/communicating with each other respectively.