Week 7 Review

 Week 7

Using crome book shortcuts……..

Using chrome book shortcuts was really interesting. I use many simple shortcuts on my laptop and with the ipad though I am so very aware that there are just so many more out there.  Oh there are so many more alright it has been really interesting to discover just how many there are. I think that I will endeavour to learn and practice a new short cut that would assist me on a frequent basis. I have since printed out a few and am trying to get into more of a habit of using the shortcut rather than the long many clicks options that I usually revert to.

The 1:1 Device initiative

Partnership- participation and power.  Manaiakalani supports a program to facility The desire to achieve the 1::1 journey with the tricky issue of students from low income family.     There is power in the ownership of a device they have the power to own and be responsible for it and there is a certain value in this.  Together with this there is also a need to protect them and to ensure a positive introduction and education around using this device sensibly and safely..  If they are encouraged to purchase an expensive device then it has to be utilised in meaningful and empowering ways through carefully selected learn create share tasks, encouraging learner agency.  A my school senior students have 1-1 devices and they are consistently using devices in this way.  They are supported by Manaiakalani and use their devices to assist learning in a variety of ways aligning with the learn create share idea.  Our year twos are using ipads and supported also. This looks fabulous. The device issue is something that hinders my ability to drive forward with digital technologies and some of the ideas I have got from this new learning recently.  I have a small selection of old ipads which sometimes are not ideal.  What I have been encouraged by is the lovely story of a teacher that was able to engage her students and work to utilize one old standa lone computer to drive forward in technology.  This soy inspires me that where there is a will there is a way.

Hapara dash is a away of keeping everyone safe or keeping in check with what they are looking at even what they have deleted !!

After hearing about hapara dash and speaking to my own older children who are in intermediate and high school classes with high device usage I can totally see how it is a fantastic and essential tool for teachers to get using.  It allows us to monitor students activity and assist in ensuring that they are responsible with time and choices.  

Powerful positive and proactive language

Every time before sharing language / communication online 

Is it positive?-  is it thoughtful? -is it helpful?

Partnership with parents important to share info with parents or even better get students to share this information so it is a shared vision and so much more powerful.

Why cybersmart…

We need to keep our students to be safe, SMART and SECUREs online and prepare them in being cuber smart positive online citizens.   Teaching them to interact confidently, POSITIVELY and powerfully online.

This doesn't happen over night Teachers need to model using positive language and show how to interact and communicate in a correct way online. Look for those opportunities to how you can find and use teaching opportunities to model this. It really does need to be seen, heard and modeled many times and must be planned deliberate things modeled and taught to allow this to happen.

 New learners need regular teaching on this that builds on what they know and consistently supports being cyber smart.

They are creating their own digital footprint from the time they begin online with us and we need to introduce and  support them to understand of how important this is and the effects  they can have on line and what impacts this has on themselves and others.  Looking at positive but also make wary of the negative effects.   Doing all we can to make this a positive impact out there.  Even young 5 year old students can experience online communications through a class bog or site or face book page where they observe the connection between their school learning and connecting with other classes schools teachers, whanau and others.