Abstract:
With the increased focus on e-education and closing the digital divide through accessto ICT’sin South
Africa, foundation and secondary school curricula are increasingly becoming the location for ICT
integration. There is however no overt focus on introducing digital wellness and digital citizenship
education information into the curriculum, leaving students vulnerable in terms of information seeking,
use, and production even with infrastructure access being available. This treats the problem of the
digital divide in South Africa as a purely access-based issue, ignoring the influence of information
poverty and digital citizenship on the digital divide. Through examining the existing curriculum this
article attemptsto suggest a possible integration of these topics within the existing curricularstructure.
