Kia ora everyone, happy first day of Spring!
Today we began with a Google Meet highlighting - Being Cybersmart in a Learn Create Share World with Fiona. We learnt that the kaupapa comes from Manaiakalani goals to teach and empower our students to navigate as digital citizens. As teachers we need to model positive language and behaviour in the digital world for our students to be smart and secure.
Do our students really know about the reality of being online?
Cybersmart should be a whole school focus, planned and deliberate teaching, relevant and real scenarios embedded into an existing educational programme, or in response to student needs.
The Kawa of Care document is highlighted - so important for our students to understand and follow to empower and harness their device for learning purposes. We need to get students to commit to these themes - the Do's about being a good online citizen.
Also - Blogging! Sharing on Blogs elevates positive actions - content that they are sharing maintains a positive connection that is authentic helping to develop empathy and understanding. More importantly when learning is visible students need to make smart decisions (digital footprint).
The big takeaway - elevate being positive on an everyday basis to be Cybersmart!
Chalk n Talk today:
The Manaiakalani Journey
Partnership
Ako is a whanau or community experience
Engagement is in the decision making process
Engagement through device ownership
Participation
Every learner can participate
Every teacher can be supported to become digitally fluent when all the devices are the same
Engagement through device ownership
Protection
This should happen behind the scenes
Manaiakalani partnered with Hapara
Partnership with filtering
Today we also got to have a wee play on a Chromebook - thanks Korimako Hub, and my iPad. Was fun to work through the Digital Dig (which the Korimako kids have done earlier in the year). Working through the short cuts were harder than I thought - I have a new found respect for my students who navigate their devices like demons. Explain Everything was the app to explore today on the iPad. Was a bit of a novelty to use - useful for the juniors, but perhaps something that I would not incorporate into my planning. Check out my creation below.
See y'all next week.
Kia ora Melanie,
ReplyDeleteGreat to read about your insights today. The cybersmart message is such an important one. We've all had moments of cringe when we see adults online behaving in a less than cybersmart way. I know that you and your team will be consistent with your shared language across the hub around this. For me, the clear message of being SMART, rather than safe is key to helping students (and adults) get how they need to behave online.
I'm glad you had a great time engaging with the different devices. It does help to have used them a couple of times eh?!
Ngā mihi,
Sharon