eAwareness
| ELearning links | Practical Applications Awareness of ICTs and their relevance in society; incl. legal & ethical ‘digital citizenship’ Online health & safety |
e-Awareness | Hectors World Google digital literacy tour Brain POP 4netsafety 4kids/safesurf http://ictinenglishnz.blogspot.com/2011/02/safer-internet-day.html | - Works with students to co-construct their understanding
of Digital Citizenship and Cyber Safety policies. - Compare Digital Citizenship with Citizenship (conventional idea of citizenship)
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e-Inclusion | mac-universal access Mindmapping & flow charts | - Using eBooks on iPod touch/ iPad-you can even set the page turning time if the student has limited movement
- http://www.storylineonline.net/
- students specifically adapt & use computer setup & online tools naturally & authentically to access learning opportunities.
- http://www.writingfun.com - using scaffolds to teach text types
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Digital Footprint | 9 elements of Digital Citizenship | - work with students to co-construct their understanding of Digital Citizenship and Cyber Safety policies.
- work with students to understand what goes on the net stays on the net so a need to make decisions within key competencies Managing self, Participating and Contributing and Relating to Others
- Understanding effects of personal digital footprint on the wider community - posting photos may endanger others if consent not requested.
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Information sharing -Health & Safety | simulate2educate Woogie World Netiquette Netiquette for kids | - Within Health units e.g. Relationships look at keeping ourselves safe
- ‘Cause and Effect’ graphic organiser or DeBono ‘Consequence & Sequel’ (CoRT Thinking) to identify possible impacts of unsafe internet use.
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Legalities | Google digital literacy tour Brain POP 4netsafety 4kids/safesurf | - Make it a habit to check terms and conditions on all sites-look for age restrictions and who might recieve your information (how the site earns it’s money)
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Technological literacy
| ELearning links | Practical Applications Use of ICT tools for study, work, leisure & communication, incl. opportunities, difficulties& potential risks of ICTs. |
Accessing student learning opportunities | Creativity & thinking tools Music tools ICT & Literacy progressions | |
Management tools | Quiz & Poll Tools | |
Online gaming/ Virtual worlds | Diigo links Scratch.mit.edu | |
Social Networking & Online collaboration | cooltoolsforschools Why share | - Use social networking tools such as Twitter to link teachers or classrooms
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Accessing professional learning opportunities | TKI communities Teachers.net -gazette Education world EdGazette-articles Shifting thinking | |
Tools for life long learning | Edna.edu.au twitter -ictclassroom Shifting thinking Top ten reasons | - Transferring knowledge beyond the situation in which it was learned.(Habits of Mind-’Applying past knowledge to new situations’) get students to reflect on what elearning skills they use when exploring new tools.
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Tools for self reflection / sharing | Mahara.org Classroom 2.0 Review & reflection tools | - Blogs, class forum discussions (knowledgeNET)
- Inspiration or mindmapping tools
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Ability to transfer knowledge between programmes | Visual literacy Graphic organisers Drawing to integrate info | Hyperlinking documents to movies, internet, other documents etc that made it easier for relievers to take over your programmes |
Obtaining new skills | keyboarding skills for kids | - YouTube as a way to learn new skills e.g. how to boil an egg
- http://www.ehow.com/ a multitude of pages on how to do things from the sublime to the ridiculous e.g. how to change a car tyre
- http://www.howstuffworks.com/ again a multitude of pages on how things work e.g. volcanoes, springs etc
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Media literacy
| eLearning links | Practical Applications Combining and evolving with traditional mass media (text, radio, TV) & digital media. |
Digital media | Digital collaborative tools Image tools Drawing tools | - commenting on topical issues through online newspapers or current event TV programmes websites
- creating class blog sites that give students a voice
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Visual Language Static image creation | Design-Posters-Online design-elements | - Photography that creates visual image to teach deeper features in written language e.g Solitude - take photos then manipulate them in Iphoto (or other) to “show not tell” the idea of solitude.
- Photography as a story board in applications such as comic life
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Visual Language Moving image creation | kidsvid 4 teachers Video tools | - Using video to record everyday student work such as
- students creating movies that deal with school wide issues to be shown at assemblies
- Assemblies that are televised rather than attended
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Understanding advertising | Don't buy it 12 digital image manipulation tools Is seeing believing? Media smart | - Demonstrate how easy it is to make changes to images -use iPhoto retouch, Photoshop, GIMP etc
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Copyright | Links relating to Copyright Creative content Creative Commons | - Debate the issue of downloading music illegally - what are the repercussions
- Acknowledging websites/images etc used in projects
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Digital literacy
| ELearning links | Practical Applications Using technology for information and knowledge. |
Access, retrieve, store, organise information & knowledge | Organisation tools File storage tools Research tools | - Research tool - when supporting work within the classroom from research within the internet you must find three documents that support what you are saying.
- Using
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Create and manage projects | Quiz & Poll Tools Online studyguide -science | - Teach study skills to students
- Use homework sites such as YahooKids to help them develop goal setting and planning for their projects
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Synthesise, integrate & present | Presentation tools | - www.blurb.com/Australia at a cost students can write and have their own books created
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Share, exchange and communicate in multiple formats-textual or multimedia. | Twitter The innovative educator Once a teacher PLN PLN for kids | - Finding other schools to work with using real time sharing tools such as wallwisher, google docs, skype etc and work collaboratively at the same time.
- Skype other classes -interview techniques
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Critical, creative and innovative thinking. | Creativity lesson plan Intro to creative thinking Creative kids Art games for kids Creative games for kids | - Create composite photographs or videos by using ‘instant alpha’ (Pages), ‘Lasso’ and ‘cutout’ (Word) or greenscreen technology and layering images
- Provide opportunity for kids to develop skills in new tools -put time limits/ expectations on it but then walk away.
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Informational literacy | ELearning links | Practical Applications Understand, and interpret information from all kinds of sources. |
Access information from all kinds of sources. | http://kids.yahoo.com/ weblist.me Delicious.com
| - Wonderwheel and timeline - tools that you click on down the side of your google search page. Wonderwheel puts your search into a brainstorm so that you can decide exactly what area of topic you want to look at.
- Timeline shows you all the information about your search topic chronologically.
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Read with meaning & understand critically | Visual literacy Graphic organisers Drawing to integrate info | - Use hypertexts such as Ihttp://www.inanimatealice.com/. excellent for all levels to look at inference and critical thinking
- Discuss effect of images or text -is the site/ image true? (checking sources)
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Evaluate & connect information from all kinds of sources. | Compare PDF Comparing & evaluating Compare & contrast Fact checking Comparing & evaluating Information fluency | - Students use Activating Prior Knowledge and Making Connections reading strategies to formulate questions to ask an expert
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Integrate different information, data, knowledge and other sources. | Drawing to integrate info Bibliography for kids Summarising strategies | http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/eng06.sci.engin.design.lp_tanglefree/ Above site is a hook into http://www.wolveslair.co.nz/ a site inspired by Dragon’s Den that encourages young inventors and/or innovators in the business world |
