Friday 9 March 2018

4th Week, 2nd Challenge

Design a digital safety, citizenship, and learning resource for parents

The aim of this activity is to create a resource, website, or presentation for the parents of your students for them to understand how to help their children become better digital learners and citizens.
I have decided to prepare a digital presentation using Buncee to share with parents on how to help my students use technology in safe ways.

  • My resource  contains information that is age appropriate and relevant for the students I teach. I am a teacher of 13-years old students in a bilingual school.
  • My resource  contains multimedia and visuals.
  • I might want to add a translation bar (you can do this in PBWorks) or other translation help for parents with limited English. Even I included a video with subtitles in Spanish. I also included a bottom for copy and paste the text in English for translate it into Spanish 
Here you can visit my presentation. 

Teachers can avoid a lot of stress by making connections with all parents at the beginning of the semester. The first step is to send all parents a positive message letting them know how excited you are about teaching their son or daughter. This way the first communication isn’t negative. Parents also need to know right away how to track their child’s progress regularly and how to contact you if problems do arise. Engaging parents is a challenge, but technology helps us communicate with parents regularly and quickly.  
When we’re involving parents, schools tend to focus on supporting students by strengthening and assisting school programs and priorities. When we’re engaging parents, schools support students by developing parent relationships. Most studies have shown that just about any kind of increased connection between schools and parents is beneficial for the student.  Parent engagement is better, and offers opportunities for transformational beneficial change – for the school, for the community, for the family and for the student, mainly. 

Learning intentions with this digital, citizenship,learning resource: 
  • Examine children’s use of technology
  • Increase awareness of the potential challenges around technology use
  • Learn practical, proactive parenting strategies to maintain connections with children using the media they are using.
  • Learn how to guide children in appropriate and safe interactions on the Internet.
  • Find support and resources to better understand these issues.

Children can have a hard time understanding that the Internet is an anonymous environment where people aren’t always who they say they are. We call this stranger danger.
Many parents don’t feel that their children are at risk online. But there are adults who pose as children to gain the trust and learn personal information about real children.
Just as you would teach them to avoid talking to a stranger on the street, it is important to make children aware of Internet stranger danger.
Luckily, there are privacy settings that can help your child stay safe online. Taking time to create privacy settings and unique passwords can help children maximize the internet while minimizing the risk.

3 comments:

  1. You are so right, making things right and safe takes time and patience: setting privacy, keeping an eye on what our children do. Buncee is such a great tool to use, and in my opinion makes presentations so easy and attractive!

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  2. Yes, I couldn’t agree more. As teachers, in our iPads we use an app to control students ‘ electronic device when they are in the classroom, we can check what they are doing, blocking it if it is necessary, and some other things. The technological coordinator is always worried about security. At home, parents have a great responsibility to teach them hoe to navigate in the internet safely and some other thing to take into account.

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  3. And I really like Buncee, I didn’t know it before. But it is not free. You have a free limited number of Buncees. What a pity!

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