DFI te rā tuawaru

Today was focussed on devices. We had some time with a Chromebook and an ipad. This integrated well with the Manaiakalani kaupapa because the explanation covered why these devices are the choices for use with the Manaiakalani model. There was also 101 Hapara Teacher Dashboard, a play with the Digital Dig anda chance to register for the Google Educator exam.
We were asked to create a screencast with reference to one of the content areas of the Manaiakalani cybersmart curriculum. I looked at Smart Media because I think this topic is a really interesting area for students and teachers to investigate. There is a lot of content that can be used or adapted to fit the age, stage and delivery angle, and it fits into a variety of learning areas for secondary school students.

Smart Relationships

Here are some learning activities that I put together for one of the teachers I am supporting this year. Resources have come from Manaiakalani and Google, as well as my ideas. Only a few students got really into the Pick-a-Path story, which I thought would be very engaging but wasn't. The reason for this I think was that I probably needed to do some prior work with the students on algorithmic thinking so that they were in a good position to understand the planning process required for this activity.

Critical Thinking and Fake News

During the Developing in Digital Worlds workshops, I observed many teachers creating learning experiences for their students based on collaborative reasoning and argumentation. I considered how, as a facilitator, I could create some engaging learning activities along this line. Classes were studying 'digital footprint' and had been assessing sites and emails for signs of phishing. They were learning how to detect lies and stay true. I considered some of the topics that we had covered in the DIDW sessions and thought about how these could be incorporated with lie detection and came up with the activity above.

It was quite challenging as it required students to read the information on the site I had provided with respect to the statement in blue and then find two other different and reliable sites that corroborated that message. When they could do this, the 'Rule of 3' can be assumed to mean that the statement is true. It was difficult because students had to read the whole texts that they were given and also that they accessed. Sometimes the heading or title made a statement that wasn't actually proven by the text. Often, the crux of the text was right at the bottom of a fairly long article and students had to persevere, scroll down, by-pass adds etc to get to the end.

Some students made a very good attempt. I also learnt that allowing students to do this with one or two others helped them all to complete it. Have a look at:
Hailey
Brianna

Using Google MyMaps for smart digital footprint

I completed this activity in three classes in term 2 and the teachers and students really enjoyed being able to plot their pin in the place they were born and write a few sentences about themselves as well as place a couple of photos of themselves and that place. A couple of students had some difficulties with not interfering with others' work or the layers of the map, but mostly it was an excellent lesson which could be adapted for other purposes.

Ko Au - All About Me

During term 1 I have been teaching digital footprint in classes. Part of this was to ask students to write an introduction about themselves for their blog. This would be a smart piece of writing in that they wouldn't use any information that should not be shared online.
I started this with my year 3-4 classes in two schools and then decided to use it with the year 5-6 classes in some schools. When I thought about Kereru Park, I considered that many students there could speak Te Reo quite well and might prefer to write this in Māori. I mentioned it to Jason and he gave me the phrases on slide 2. Then, I went to class and asked the teacher, Whaea Horiana to help me with the correct phrases in Te Reo for slides 1 and 3 and this is the result. Please feel free to reuse or modify as you wish.

Term 2 Digital Footprint

This is the resource I have put together for term 2 cybersmart - digital footprint. I started using this with five teachers last week. All classes have a slightly different version of this resource because I decided to make separate copies for each school to provide a similar base of content and then to cater for the differing needs of teachers and students. I expect that over the course of the term, the content will change further as I work with teachers and continue to co-construct.
Week 1 started well with discussing what happened recently with facebook. Many students thought that facebook's user data had been hacked, so we had some great discussions about what really happened and then why it is important to be aware of age restrictions for social networking sites, as well as how to keep your privacy settings up to date.
There are some things I still need to add including students making an up-to-date blog profile and building in blog posting and commenting - positive, thoughtful, helpful.
Two of my year 3-4 classes are still back working through a few more term 1 items and then I will begin an age-appropriate digital footprint curriculum for them.