Being Cybersmart - Manaiakalani Cybersmart
(great resource for cybersmart lessons)
https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us
Reinforcing and consistently using POSITIVE language with our learners is very important!
For example, using positive videos for one week reprogrammes the bad behaviour (this method was used with autistic kids, videoing them doing the right thing and then playing it to them for one week)
The same approach when we teach our student to be CYBERSMART. Talk to the learners using positive/smart language avoiding negative wording.
Focus on being Smart (not unsafe)
Smart teachers
Keep revisiting Kawa of Care
Do it in a positive way (film positive
moments, what students should do, not bad
behaviour!!)
Only POSITIVE videos, ideas, blog posts,
language can change bad behaviours!!
Hapara
My Hapara access: https://www.teacherdashboard.com/#/td/manage/
Using Hapara effectively - display all day long on the screen to make it visible to everyone in the class.
Creating folders on the top - can be done for the whole school or for individual classes.
Sharing Tab - making sure that their work/ posts/ entries are shared! (make students do it once a week to clear the folders)
Highlights
Pause screen - it freezes students' screens. 'Stop - Look - Listen' tool. The current settings have defaulted to 15 minutes.
Guided browsing.
Highlights - Activity Viewer - Collaboration
Dashboards - Posts - checking the blog posts. Draft posts (lighter shades with a pencil sign)
you can also check their blog comments
comments highlighted in red - comments came from an anonymous account (not necessarily spam, but needs to be checked out)
The text box at the bottom of the page - feedback or questions to Hapara.
Class Info Tab
Teacher's tool to manage kids accounts. Ask the students to reset the password using your computer
Into to Devices
We had a chance to try and use Chromebooks and ipads. It was really good to experience what our learners experience during their learning journey.
Handwriting in Junior classes in Manaiakalani - stylus - it's just a modern tool. People wrote on different objects throughout history: on wood, on stones, on glass, paper etc. Now it is a new digital era when the kids can practise their handwriting skills using stylus pens on ipads.
Beginning the year with the Junior learners:
Video to play:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tuvPxXCuTMG0GyXawcE0wqm3641u3EkwWKcD1leyYEA/edit?usp=sharing
Explain Everything Presentation
Great tool. It needs to be deliberately taught during the first few weeks to develop students fluency in using this tool effectively.
Maths activities (examples)
Great ideas to use explain everything in the classroom
Screencastify
Screencastify is the simplest way to create high-quality screencasts from right within your browser.
Screencastify can be used for:
- Instructional Videos.
- Narrating Slideshows. It's easy to use Screencastify with Google Slides to narrate over slideshows.
- Explaining Student Understanding.
- Dubbing A Video.
- Practising Fluency.
- Providing Feedback.
I'll practise using Screencastify as I think it can be very useful for creating rewindable learning opportunities. The students can also record their thinking, ideas and explain processes. Very excited to use it with my learners.
Another great DFI session full of practical tips and tools!
Elena this looks an amazing resource with so many uses for screencastify. I always feel reticent to using video, either image or voice, personally but the students certainly don't. To them it really is another tool they embrace fully, so it would be great to investigate some of these uses and applications. Teaming it up with Cybersmart lessons would be good also.
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