Digital Fluency Intensive - Cohort #2 2019 - Day Five

Being Cybersmart is all about empowering our learners as connected and confident decision makers where they have the confidence to share their learning on a platform that is theirs. We need to encourage our students and reinforce to them that they have something to share and it is important. We are empowering the students as learners! Tell the students 'their blog belongs to them, be PROUD.'

How do we phrase our learning related to cybersafety? What do we say? How do we say it? Does it have negative connotations? How can we make the outcomes positive? Looking at cybersafety from a positive point of view will ensure that the connections made elevate positive actions from our learners. 

Are you in the right place at the right time? 

This was a fabulous light bulb moment for me, instead of saying to students, "you shouldn't be in there' instead say, 'Are you in the right place? Is this the right time for that?'

I created a DLO Screencastify to highlight this lesson on the Manaiakalani Cybersafety site.

I had quite a few moments during today's session that I thought, 'ohhhhhhhhhh .... that makes sense!" Today I realised that my digital work flow is not efficient. Fiona reminded the group that 'If you share a file on smart share (via Hapara) you should share it on your site first.' I do not do this. This has made be rethink how I have set up my reading in my class site. There are too many clicks at the moment and I can reduce this by setting my reading up directly on the class site. I am really excited about re-jigging my class site to make the work flow more efficient and effective for my learners.

The Digital Dig is an excellent resource for learners and I know my students would benefit from working their way through these slides. This would be an excellent way for the students to teach their whanau about what they actually can do when they use their chromebooks. I am going to break the Digital Dig down and the students will work through these over the first 5 weeks of term, posting their learning on their blogs at each step.

Screencastify is an awesome classroom tool which my students have really enjoyed using to record their maths learning. I need to use Screencastify more often as a learning tool for myself and my students.

Our Ipad learning was a reminder to me that 'chromebooks' are not the only technology available to our students. My knowledge of Ipads is quite limited and it was great to have an insight into what is actually available to our students when they use different technology. I look forward to using this new knowledge when I use the Ipads back in my classroom. I enjoyed each of the aspects that we focused in on today and especially enjoyed Fiona Grant sharing her digital expertise with us.