as it gives a foundation to why we took this pathway of learning at our school.
I hadn’t made treaty connection of Partnership, Participation and Protection before, so I will use this as a great introduction for parent and Whanua meetings each year.
Partnership brings a sense of belonging to the journey,
Partnership brings a sense of belonging to the journey,
Participation gives us a clear way forward about the pathway and the why we need device ownershipProtection is the behind the scenes tools that gives our whanua and parents the security they want to see and know about in this cyber world.
Basically the what, the why, the how of Manaiakalani.
To enable our children to be good digital citizens we must empower our learners to be confident decision makers.
Consistency of, programme implementation, at every level of the school, along with known language and deliberate teaching are all vital for this to occur.
The cyber smart curriculum must be programmed into your yearly plan and have links into weekly / unit planning to ensure that deliberate teaching takes place, at least once a week when children get their device and then recapped each year.
There are 12 categories in the cyber smart suite but the 3 below are the key ones to be to taught yearly
The importance of consistency of language needs to be reinforced across the school: right place, right choice, right time and positive, thoughtful, helpful are to be seen and heard in every learning space.
By giving a child the skills to harness a device and empowering them with positive on line behaviour they will be confident, connected lifelong learners who can be ubiquitous in their learning.I liked the question if “I google you in 10 years time will you be happy?” we have succeeded in ensuring our children have digital citizen ship if they can answer, ”yes”.
So for me my review questions for NBC are
Are we visual in the what, why, how of our Manaiakalani journey?
Does our yearly curriculum document explicitly state the cybersmart categories to be covered?
Is our Manaiakalani programme robust enough, in pedodagy and practice?
Are we being proactive enough with our whanau and parent education?
Are we being proactive enough with our whanau and parent education?
Hi Deb. Great post. It is clear how well you are relating your DFI thinking and practical work to your school context. At SFOA we too work hard to have consistent language across the school. I agree that we need to think very carefully about how well we are bringing our school community along with us. I also liked the statement about what would our digital footprint look like in 10 years. I wish our children understood that!
ReplyDeleteKia ora Deb,
ReplyDeleteTo enable our children to be good digital citizens we must empower our learners to be confident decision makers. This statement is so important and why we do not fret about students blogs being so public as we have taught them how to be smart online and confident with their decisions.
This confidence can only really come if there is a Cybersmart programme being integrated into the school programme.
Nga mihi,
Mark