Grade 5 students at Keeler learning circuits and reflecting at their own pace using a guiding checklist to personalize their learning.
Showing posts with label Digital Citizenship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Digital Citizenship. Show all posts
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Monday, 27 April 2015
#YYCLC Day 144: Grade 2 Digital Literacy with Read & Write Gold
Grade 2 students at Keeler using Read & Write Gold to conduct internet research.
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
#YYCLC Day 141: Digital Citizenship and Research
These grade two students are working on their research skills for an animal project in their class. This group is working on their digital citizenship skills and learning how to use Comic Life to present the information they have discovered about their animals.
Tuesday, 7 April 2015
#YYCLC Day 130: Small Group Video Editing
These students came in to the learning commons today representing their classroom groups. We had to work on (redo) an older Digital Citizenship Video project that got deleted during a computer upgrade. They were so excited to be working in iMovie again!
Tuesday, 24 February 2015
#YYCLC Day 108: Digital Literacy in Grade 2
Grade 2 students at Keeler School learning how to identify the different components of a web page, including the web address, banner, title, navigation bar and content.
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
DC Series: Grade 3 - DC Videos
This year we tried taking a different approach to learning about digital citizenship. Rather than just work in website, play games and watch a video, I thought it would be more powerful to CREATE something based on what we learn from some of the activities. We decided we would make our own Digital Citizenship Series of videos.
With this particular grade 3 class, we started by deciding on a topic that the teacher wanted to explore (based on the needs of the classroom) and we collaboratively planned an inquiry together. The plan is shared the plan below.
We started by visiting and playing Zoe and Molly which the kids really enjoyed. This was our main source of research as we believe we could encourage our students to create their own understanding of what good digital citizenship looks like.
We focused our project on the importance of keeping our personal information private. We created and had students collaborate in a Google Doc to list down all the different things that need to kept private when working online.
Once we completed this list, we launched the task:
After launching task, we placed students in small groups that would focus on a particular topic. Groups would then come up with a sentence together that would send a message about the importance of keeping private information.
When we then worked through a series of lessons where students took photos that expressed the importance of keeping their information private. We used teacher examples (shown below) to model to students what good photos should look like. From there we created some success criteria for taking photos (see the task).
Once the photos were taken, students then imported into iMovie and created a video using their images. When images were all saved in Google Drive, students then imported into iMovie to order and create a story of 'images with words'. When played in succession, the words would tell a story and student would also record voice over add some sound.
Below are the videos that we created.
With this particular grade 3 class, we started by deciding on a topic that the teacher wanted to explore (based on the needs of the classroom) and we collaboratively planned an inquiry together. The plan is shared the plan below.
We started by visiting and playing Zoe and Molly which the kids really enjoyed. This was our main source of research as we believe we could encourage our students to create their own understanding of what good digital citizenship looks like.
We focused our project on the importance of keeping our personal information private. We created and had students collaborate in a Google Doc to list down all the different things that need to kept private when working online.
Once we completed this list, we launched the task:
After launching task, we placed students in small groups that would focus on a particular topic. Groups would then come up with a sentence together that would send a message about the importance of keeping private information.
When we then worked through a series of lessons where students took photos that expressed the importance of keeping their information private. We used teacher examples (shown below) to model to students what good photos should look like. From there we created some success criteria for taking photos (see the task).
Once the photos were taken, students then imported into iMovie and created a video using their images. When images were all saved in Google Drive, students then imported into iMovie to order and create a story of 'images with words'. When played in succession, the words would tell a story and student would also record voice over add some sound.
Below are the videos that we created.
Monday, 5 January 2015
#YYCLC Day 77: Digital Citizenship Project
Our Grade 5s are closing in on a Digital Citizenship Project that they have been working on over a period of time. We're learning to create good visuals!
Thursday, 30 October 2014
#YYCLC Day42: The Learning Commons - A busy place
Today the learning commons was busy with two opposite ends of the school. Kindergarten were creating sets as a math sorting centre and also documenting with iPads. Grade 5 were creating in their DC Project using MacBooks, iPad and digital cameras.
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
#YYCLC Day41: The Green Screen Wins!
Grade 3s taking green screen photos, for a digital citizenship project about privacy, with the Green Screen App by Do Ink.
Thursday, 16 October 2014
#YYCLC Day32: Getting Creative with Digital Citizenship
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| Grade 3 students at Chris Akkerman learning to take creative photos. These photos are for a Digital Citizenship project about privacy. More to come... |
Monday, 22 September 2014
#YYCLC Day: 15 Digital Citizenship
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| Watching Videos about positive effects of Digital Citizenship ~ made by Unicef |
Friday, 12 September 2014
#YYCLC Day 9: Digital Citizenship Inquiry
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| Students adding to the class Google Doc about the importance of keep personal information private. We also used http://badguypatrol.ca as a resource. |
Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Digital Citizenship in the Learning Commons
This year in our school, we have opened up the world of collaboration and communication to our students. What an exciting time it has been. In 4 short months we have initiated 340+ student Gmail and #GAFE (Google Apps For Education) accounts from grades 3-5. It has been a huge task to get passwords changed, model the log in process and learn how to work in this new collaborative environment. Our students have not used email before at school so we have found this to be a huge learning curve as well.
Being so new and exciting, the introduction to the new student Gmail accounts has been relatively easy. We have found our students (for the most part) are so willing to try it our and experiment with using email. They seem so eager to communicate through email.
This eagerness and willingness to experiment has also brought along a new set of challenges. All of a sudden, some students were feeling a lot 'safer' behind the screen of their computer. With this apparent safety, came a few inappropriate emails that were sent to various students. This lack of sensible choices brought up some excellent opportunities to discuss the appropriate uses for email.
I personally believe some of our students really didn't understand how email works and what the consequences of inappropriate choices might be, for all parties. Through a few hard lessons, and continued discussions, I think we are getting somewhere with learning to use email in a positive way. It really is amazing to see students so excited to communicate with each other in another format.
As a staff we have also begun discussions about the need to including digital citizenship (DC) in our assessment practices. It all projects that happen in our learning commons, aspects of DC will always be woven into the learning and assessment that goes with that learning. We need to teach our students the importance of thinking about our behaviour when working online.
In our learning commons and school we are also promoting being a positive online citizen. After discussing this in our last staff meeting, a colleague, and fellow New Zealander, Richard Wells (@ipadwells on twitter) shared posted some posters that he created and posted on his blog. The post can be found here. He also shares the individual posters here.
Being so new and exciting, the introduction to the new student Gmail accounts has been relatively easy. We have found our students (for the most part) are so willing to try it our and experiment with using email. They seem so eager to communicate through email.
This eagerness and willingness to experiment has also brought along a new set of challenges. All of a sudden, some students were feeling a lot 'safer' behind the screen of their computer. With this apparent safety, came a few inappropriate emails that were sent to various students. This lack of sensible choices brought up some excellent opportunities to discuss the appropriate uses for email.
I personally believe some of our students really didn't understand how email works and what the consequences of inappropriate choices might be, for all parties. Through a few hard lessons, and continued discussions, I think we are getting somewhere with learning to use email in a positive way. It really is amazing to see students so excited to communicate with each other in another format.
As a staff we have also begun discussions about the need to including digital citizenship (DC) in our assessment practices. It all projects that happen in our learning commons, aspects of DC will always be woven into the learning and assessment that goes with that learning. We need to teach our students the importance of thinking about our behaviour when working online.
In our learning commons and school we are also promoting being a positive online citizen. After discussing this in our last staff meeting, a colleague, and fellow New Zealander, Richard Wells (@ipadwells on twitter) shared posted some posters that he created and posted on his blog. The post can be found here. He also shares the individual posters here.
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| The positive wall display in our Learning Commons |
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