I haven't blogged for over a week, with my time being spent on job applications and re-organising my school's ICT teaching and learning space [more on that in later blogs]. However, yesterday I attended the Australian Communication & Media Authority's [ACMA] launch of its pilot of Cybersafety Outreach - Professional Development for Educators. This was a great workshop, hosted by Greg Gebhart, was about building digital citizenship.
Topics included:
• a technology usage audit for students
• positive online behaviour and cyberbullying
• digital literacy: communicating safely
• digital literacy: critical literacy
• personal and peer safety: safe social networking
Case studies were used for participant discussion and feedback. These were studied from the points of view of: development area [see above], legal rights, policies, ACMA resources & possible solutions.
Internet Usage / Acceptable Usage policies were also looked at.
ACMA resources & others used include:
Wise Up To IT 13+ y.o. http://www.wiseuptoit.com.au
Let's Fight it 13+ y.o.Together http://www.digizen.org
CyberNetrix 12-14 y.o. http://www.cybernetrix.com.au/
CyberQuoll 10-12 y.o. http://www.cyberquoll.com.au/hub.htm
Hector's World 5-10 y.o. http://www.hectorsworld.com/
Netty's World 2-7 y.o. http://www.nettysworld.com.au/
