DFI Session 8 Devices

Today we started off by looking into Being Cybersmart (See Slide 4) It's very important that we use the correct positive language when teaching students. This will be a major teaching point for me at the start of next year.
Use smart language (To me that links in 100% with PB4L). Demonstrating the right actions for a week can help to re-train students doing the wrong thing. It's better if you can catch the students that usually do the wrong thing, doing the right thing. Teach them on Day 1, Term 1 on filing documents in the right folders. As well as Kawa of Care. (Make a positive slide animation on how to care for your chrome). Every Friday take the time to tidy up the unshared folders.

I think it is important that we come up with a plan of what we want to teach for cyber safety at PES. What is priority and should be taught first. A bit like we have a weekly focus for PB4L. I would like to have a weekly focus on being Cybersmart.

Hapara

Teach students how to categorize their work from day 1. 

Tidy up drives from unshared documents weekly.

New function on Dashboard is Pause screen - same as stop, look and listen.

Guided browsing, keeps students focussed on the task at hand. Great for tests, exams or silent reading. 

Blogs in Hapara (able to see blog posts and comments)

Kawa of Care video for Ipads This is really cute. I will share this with our junior teachers as it is very clear on how to care for your Ipad. 

Screen Chastity is very handy to demonstrate and share how things work or where to find things on a computer.  Below are two of my efforts to demonstrate how you can use Screencastify. It is a very handy and easy tool that I totally underutilise. Planning on using it a lot next year. 

Here is a nice example of a rubric for students to evaluate their blog posts. Quality Blog Post Rubric