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18 21st Century Competencies
Digital citizenship is emerging as a local priority among Ontario school boards as a result of a recent emphasis on technology-enabled transformative pedagogy through the 21st Century Innovation Research initiative (2011–14). Digital citizenship requires greater awareness of the importance of respecting and protecting privacy and information, given the volumes of information to which we have access through digital networks (C21 Canada, 2012, p. 38).
Citizenship education is an important facet of students’ overall education in Ontario. In every course in the Grade 9 and 10 Canadian and World Studies curriculum, and particularly in the Grade 10 Civics and Citizenship course, students are given opportunities to learn about what it means to be a responsible, active citizen, both in the classroom and in the diverse communities to which they belong, within and outside the school. It is important for students to understand that they belong to many communities and that, ultimately,
they are all citizens of the global community. (See Appendix B for Ontario’s Citizenship Education Framework.)
Competencies associated with creativity and innovation are important elements in entrepreneurial activity.
For the most part, the term “entrepreneurship” is not widely used in competency frameworks, but the concept is conveyed implicitly or explicitly in some overarching vision statements, including Ontario’s, and through notions of creativity and innovation.