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The survey of digital risk perceptions among new teachers who are beginning their careers and who are, for the most part, digital natives, reveals their importance and impact on students’ digital literacy and the use of digital tools in the classroom. For many, talk of risks has a strong emotional impact that can generate a sense of incompetence and a feeling of lack of training. As a result, these digital natives do not feel more confident or competent in dealing with the issues related to digital uses in their personal context and even more so at school. Alarmist speeches about the dangers of digital technology therefore seem to have a stronger negative impact and do not encourage teachers to engage in educating students through and on digital technology.

Depictions of digital risks therefore often appear to be a barrier to education, especially when they are accompanied by a poorly developed information and digital culture in personal and professional life. In addition to this, there are differences in the idea of their role as teachers and in the interpretation of what the institution expects of them when it comes to training students in digital technology. These very different conceptions testify to the difficulties of the institution and of teacher training in clearly communicating the expectations in this regard. However, we have identified teachers for whom knowledge and consideration of digital risks are a powerful lever for accompanying and educating students in the critical uses of digital technology, provided that they themselves have the skills to become informed and to use different digital tools in their daily lives. Thus, reinforcing teacher training to develop information and digital cultures, particularly by taking into account the diversity of risks, or rather the issues at stake, appears to be a solution in order to respond to the need for critical education on digital technology and its uses in society.