To help kick-off the elementary CyberSmart Week here is a great video you can share with your class!
Showing posts with label Cybersafety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cybersafety. Show all posts
Monday, February 3, 2014
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
CyberSmart Students
Image credit: Flickr user superkimboLVUSD's CyberSmart week will be held February 3-7, 2014. While the activities are aimed at elementary students and their families, we encourage all teachers to spend some time this week talking about cybersafety and digital citizenship. The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) requires schools to "provide for educating minors about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms, and cyberbullying awareness and response."
Elementary teachers should plan on spending about 10 or 15 minutes each day discussing these topics with their students. To make the task easier, the media specialists have created a new website containing grade-specific activities and lesson plans for each day. In addition, the website contains pages with teacher and parent resources. Secondary teachers will find that the teacher resources and site source pages contain a wealth of information that they can draw upon. Even after CyberSmart week is over, we will continue to update the site as we find quality resources to share.
As we have for the past few years, we will be using Woogi World, a virtual educational community created to teach elementary students about cybersafety. Teacher login information will be posted on the CyberSmart Week website as soon as it available.
Visit the LVUSD CyberSmart Week website.
Click here to access the LVUSD's Teacher Guide to Cyber Safety in the Classroom.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
CyberSmart Week for elementary!
This is our 2nd annual CyberSmart Week for all of our elementary schools! The goal is for all teachers to spend 10-15 minutes a day discussing related topics. Some of the topics that will be discussed are; privacy, Internet safety, plagiarism, piracy, Cyber Ethics and Cybercitizenship, social networking and cyber bullying. Our students are a generation of cyber- natives that are connected and ready to go 24/7. We need to help them navigate this vast world and give them the tools to be successful and safe "surfers".
Teachers were all sent a link to the LVUSDCyberSmart Wiki which houses resources for them to use during the week. It offers lesson ideas, conversation starters, videos, online quizzes and fun games. One of the websites we use is WoogiWorld. It is a great fun way for students to learn about all of these topics while becoming a cyber hero. The directions for teachers to access their log ins to this site are supplied on the wiki. Students can continue to play access this site at home during and after this week to reinforce learning.
We are also offering two parent awareness workshops during the week. Tonight at White Oak from 7-8PM and tomorrow at Lupin Hill from 7-8Pm. The district media specialist will discuss how our schools handle Cyber Safety. The Lost Hills Sheriffs J-Team will also be joining us to offer parents ways to keep their students safe online. We hope you will join us for these informative nights.
Teachers were all sent a link to the LVUSDCyberSmart Wiki which houses resources for them to use during the week. It offers lesson ideas, conversation starters, videos, online quizzes and fun games. One of the websites we use is WoogiWorld. It is a great fun way for students to learn about all of these topics while becoming a cyber hero. The directions for teachers to access their log ins to this site are supplied on the wiki. Students can continue to play access this site at home during and after this week to reinforce learning.
We are also offering two parent awareness workshops during the week. Tonight at White Oak from 7-8PM and tomorrow at Lupin Hill from 7-8Pm. The district media specialist will discuss how our schools handle Cyber Safety. The Lost Hills Sheriffs J-Team will also be joining us to offer parents ways to keep their students safe online. We hope you will join us for these informative nights.
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Digital Citizenship Lesson Plan & Poster
Many of our students can be connected to the world 24/7. Digital citizenship is one of the necessary elements they need to learn to navigate the online world safely and effectively. As students access the Internet in our classrooms we have an opportunity to teach them digital citizenship skills.
As I reflected on my time working with students creating websites I realized there were many issues I did not address initially, leading me to do a lot of clean up once the students got started. One of these was having a student post her picture, and her personal information on the website she was creating for my class. Yikes! Thankfully, I caught it quickly and used it as a teachable moment.
Instead of having to find out the hard way you can access a lesson plan that both introduces students to Edmodo and the expectations of being on an online community. The lesson revolves around five principles: communicating responsibly, reporting cyberbullying, respecting each other, giving proper credit, protecting information. The lesson plan is primarily for K-8 students, but can also work for high school students. You can access this lesson plan through Edmodo’s Digital Citizenship Starter Kit.
Edmodo recently promoted this kit by sending out free posters. The promotion has ended, but you can still access a mini-version of their poster through the starter kit. Our office happens to have an extra poster, so if you’d like to be a recipient of this please let us know.
As I reflected on my time working with students creating websites I realized there were many issues I did not address initially, leading me to do a lot of clean up once the students got started. One of these was having a student post her picture, and her personal information on the website she was creating for my class. Yikes! Thankfully, I caught it quickly and used it as a teachable moment.
Instead of having to find out the hard way you can access a lesson plan that both introduces students to Edmodo and the expectations of being on an online community. The lesson revolves around five principles: communicating responsibly, reporting cyberbullying, respecting each other, giving proper credit, protecting information. The lesson plan is primarily for K-8 students, but can also work for high school students. You can access this lesson plan through Edmodo’s Digital Citizenship Starter Kit.
Edmodo recently promoted this kit by sending out free posters. The promotion has ended, but you can still access a mini-version of their poster through the starter kit. Our office happens to have an extra poster, so if you’d like to be a recipient of this please let us know.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Free Digital Literacy Course -- Webinars
Last month, the K-12 High Speed Network released a basic online course on Digital Literacy. This course is available at no cost to all K-12 schools and districts in California through the CaliQity Learning Management System. We are hopeful that this endeavor will help schools around the State meet the forthcoming CIPA requirements and provide essential information to students.
We have scheduled three additional webinars tailored to the Digital Literacy Course available in CaliQity:
· July 11 at 9:30 am. Register at: http://icoe.k12oms.org/1172-61452
· July 18 at 3:30 pm. Register at: http://icoe.k12oms.org/1172-61453
· July 25 at 9:30 am. Register at: http://icoe.k12oms.org/1172-61454
The Digital Literacy course, which will evolve as laws and conditions change, was created and written specifically to the California state content standards for digital literacy and cybersafety. It has been vetted through the California School Library Association Curriculum Committee and reviewed by Penny Glover of the law firm Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo.
The course is built on a scaffolded model which begins at the Kinder level. It then proceeds through grade 6, before going on to the Middle School then High School levels.
The course provides simple information and assessments that are appropriate to the current grade level of a student.
The course is adaptive and users can supplement existing information with additional links, videos, etc., to bring it to the media-rich status they desire. Users can also adjust the assessments – especially if they are adding new questions. Users should understand that removing currently assessed facts or data points may cause the course to no longer meet the requirements of CIPA.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at any time at: info_request@lists.k12hsn.org or (760) 312-6512.
Thank you,
Magali Meza
Outreach Specialist
California K-12 High Speed Network
Imperial County Office of Education
Tel: (760) 312-6512
http://www.k12hsn.org
We have scheduled three additional webinars tailored to the Digital Literacy Course available in CaliQity:
· July 11 at 9:30 am. Register at: http://icoe.k12oms.org/1172-61452
· July 18 at 3:30 pm. Register at: http://icoe.k12oms.org/1172-61453
· July 25 at 9:30 am. Register at: http://icoe.k12oms.org/1172-61454
The Digital Literacy course, which will evolve as laws and conditions change, was created and written specifically to the California state content standards for digital literacy and cybersafety. It has been vetted through the California School Library Association Curriculum Committee and reviewed by Penny Glover of the law firm Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo.
The course is built on a scaffolded model which begins at the Kinder level. It then proceeds through grade 6, before going on to the Middle School then High School levels.
The course provides simple information and assessments that are appropriate to the current grade level of a student.
The course is adaptive and users can supplement existing information with additional links, videos, etc., to bring it to the media-rich status they desire. Users can also adjust the assessments – especially if they are adding new questions. Users should understand that removing currently assessed facts or data points may cause the course to no longer meet the requirements of CIPA.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at any time at: info_request@lists.k12hsn.org or (760) 312-6512.
Thank you,
Magali Meza
Outreach Specialist
California K-12 High Speed Network
Imperial County Office of Education
Tel: (760) 312-6512
http://www.k12hsn.org
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