Session 8 of DFI - Devices

Being Cybersmart - We want our learners to be empowered to connect, create and share in order to be positive - as a result we are keeping them safe.

Google have a site called 'Be Internet Awesome' which is for helping kids be safe, confident explorers of the online world.

Consistent Message - Cybersmart Learning is a whole school focus.  Cybersmart should be a 'planning in' part of our programme rather than a 'planning on'.

Our learning is visible - whenever we share on line its personal its about you - we want our learners to be empowered - its about you. We need to give our learners opportunities to decide that it is a positive message we want to share. Comments - positive - thoughtful - helpful    - when we talk face to face we want to use these comments too. Use the language when you are talking with your students in conversations so that this language is easily transferable to making quality blog comments

Increased opportunities for learners to engage in Cybersmart Conversations and Decision making with peers, whānau and teachers.

Our young people learn that every time they connect, collaborate and share online - they are building on their digital footprint.

HAPARA

Our deep dive was about Hapara - making the learning visible

Hapara was initially created to help teachers manage the work flow. It's important that learners know what Teacher Dashboard is, thats it's visible and it's there it help them with their learning.

Use a Positive phrase - 'Be on the Right Place at the Right Time'.

Ask - Do you know where your site is?
         Where your learning is?
         Where the doc is?

Visibility allows us all to be partners in the learning process. 

We looked at examples of Workspace being embedded into class sites

Chromebooks - We completed a digital dig using a chromebook. It was really good completing this and seeing what it is like for our learners - many of whom probably have more knowledge than me and are more proficient at using their chromebooks. Because our learners are not using chromebooks but instead iPads - there are a number of skills I would need to revisit.

I explored the use of screencastify with the slides to create some slides with the class on Cybersmart - Kawa of Care. As a class we will look completing this. It will be a great asset to our class learning site with positive messages and will be especially useful to use as rewindable learning for those that need to revisit and for new children coming into our class.

Thanks once again for another great day. I wish I had more time just to learn, create and share - but my knowledge of how and why we do this has greatly increased.