internet safety
One website I have found was Common Sense Education’s internet safety. https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/internet-safety This resource I would use for my fellow peers. It shares specific information for the different educational levels. Being an elementary school teacher, I would make sure my peers understand the brief information Common Sense Education says about elementary school internet safety. The focus is on if strangers contact them online. It gives students strategies such as using a traffic light analogy when contacted online. Green being ok, yellow being cautious, and red meaning risky. They also use the word stranger danger which may be familiar with the students since we teach them at an early age not to talk to strangers. The same should go for internet safety. The other articles for my peers would be an article from eLearning industries The Teacher’s Guide to Keeping Students Safe Online, by Robert Lucus. https://elearningindustry.com/the-teacher-guide-to-keeping-students-safe-online This article gives teachers great information about how to keep students safe on the internet. My favorite part of this article is in the beginning when he shares what internet safety is not. Often times these are the steps we first take in keeping students safe on the internet. We often do not teach students about internet safety but try to control the situation. While I agree with these statements, often we have to follow what our school districts want us to do. Often we are forced to use certain websites or programs purchased by the district. It is my belief that teachers do not know how to teach digital citizenship, and this article assists the teachers in giving them resources for the students to use and videos to show the students. One strategy I will use in the future is the internet safety pledge. We always to a bullying pledge at the beginning of each school year. After teaching the students about internet safety and digital citizenship, we will create a pledge and all sign it and post it in our classroom. The last strategy that I like is to practice what you preach. As educators, we must model for our students how to appropriately use the internet. The first source for my students was discussed at the beginning of my post. I use BrainPOP videos to teach my students about digital citizenship. The following video I feel is appropriate for older students in elementary school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxySrSbSY7o The video shares how to be cautious while using the internet. The nest website has a variety of games for students to play that assist with internet safety. http://www.carnegiecyberacademy.com/funstuff.html Students can choose a variety of games with different situations and they are walked through different situations about internet safety. This can be done in school or assigned as homework.
Global Collaboration Project
My other favorite Global Collaboration Project is the the Global Monster Project. Since we always focus on the academic standards, this would be a fun project to complete. Students could collaborate and create together a monster following certain guidelines. I feel that the major challenge for this project would be time. Based on the fact that I would have to tie this activity into a academic standard, I feel this would be best for an after-school club. We have a Science Olympiad team, so I could make it a science club as well and this would be something we can complete. My challenge is that I would not have every student involved. It would have to be a select group of students who have permission to stay after school. Flipgrid would be a great Web 2.0 tool for students because I can ask students a question or share what part we are going to complete and students can video their ideas so we can share outside of our school hours.
Internet Safety. (2017, August 08). Retrieved from https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/internet-safety
Lucas, R. (2018, April 23). The Teacher's Guide to Keeping Students Safe Online. Retrieved from https://elearningindustry.com/the-teacher-guide-to-keeping-students-safe-online
The Internet Safety Game. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.netsmartzkids.org/AdventureGames/TheInternetSafetyGame