Digital Fluency Intensive... Day # 8

Cybersmart not Cybersafety!

Empowering our learners as connected and confident decision makers. All our students have had Internet in their lives since birth so they are at home in a digital world and if not we need to make sure they are. By promoting the positive, Cybersmart becomes the fence at the top and not the ambulance at the bottom.

How we implement Cybersmart:

• Cybersmart training is a whole school focus
• Planned and deliberate teaching, relevant and real scenarios as part of the existing programme of learning.

• Term 1 Smart learners (LEARN) - are our stdnts effective and prepared users of digital
• Term 2: Digital footprint (CREATE) - understanding what info we should share and what we should keep to ourselves - making these decisions is important
• Term 3 Smart relationships (SHARE) - how we comment effectively on blogs, how can we invite an audience to engage with us - how to we equip our learners to be capable and positive contributors to a global society

• Empowering confident connected actively involved lifelong learners
• Ubiquitous when learning is accessible A4 (anyone, anywhere, any time any place)
• Connected empower our young people to engage online behaviour and thinking that elevates positive actions (eg: Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu as Blogger allows us to take our students online in a safe environment as we can monitor the content and comments)
• Kawa of Care - empowers parents and caregivers to confidently connect with their children’s learning
• Cybersmart allows for increased opportunities for learners to engage in cybersmart conversations and decision making with peers, whanau and teachers.

Hapara

• Dashboard helps make learning visible
• Enables quick access to student work
• All Classes - enables access to all school drives
• Work must be in folders to be visible - open XXX folder then create a doc avoids trying to access unshared work
• Drag whole Screencastify folder into media folder so its visible to teacher
• Set up groups on my dashboard won’t affect a co-teacher
• Reset folders: Will reinstate ‘lost folders’

Manaiakalani 1:1 Journey
Partnership

• Ako is a whānau or community experience - learning from and with each other
• Engagement in the decision making eg Kawa of Care
• Engagement through device ownership

Participation

• Every learner can participate
• Every teacher can be supported to become Digitally Fluent when all devices are the same
• Engagement through device ownership

Protection

• This should all happen behind the scenes
• Manaiakalani partnered with Hapara to design Teacher Dashboard to make all digital learning visible
• Partnership with N4L and Linewize for filtering

Equity and Access - Providing the very best device for learning for EVERY young person
Digital Fluency starts with the ability to use the device (Learners, Teachers, Whānau)

Teachers in a 1:1 Class need to use a learner Chromebook for a period of time to understand what the kids can (and can’t do). Today we used Chromebooks to access our learning the way our students access their learning. It was a real eye opener as this was my first time to purposely use a Chromebook. Completing the digital dig was a great way to familiarise us with what we ask our students to do every day. I know understand why some of my learners choose to use a mouse. The mouse pad would take a bit of getting used to as it didn’t respond the way I wanted it to. 

The Digital Dig should be included at the beginning of EVERY year at EVERY level.

iPads

• Ipads.manaiakalani.org - explicit site for iPad teachers
• Best practise is to cast onto an apple tv when using the iPad as a teaching tool
• Need to start by teaching the correct vocabulary as this is often transferable across the tools
• We explored Explain Everything (the main platform the junior school uses) which highlighted the fact It is important for Chromebook teachers to realise and remember that students who have been through their junior school learning journey using iPads come with a large kete of digital skills.