Flow of Activities
Activity A digital citizen
What makes a good digital citizen?
Australian Curriculum Alignment
- Collaborating and managing (ACTDIP022)
What's this about?
A digital citizen is a person who has the knowledge and skills to effectively use digital technologies to communicate with others, participate in society, and create and consume digital content.
Learning tasks
- Conduct an initial brainstorm of the question, ‘What makes a good digital citizen?’ This can be used to assess students’ prior knowledge. Use an online collaboration tool such as Padlet, OneNote, iBrainstorm or Poll Everywhere to share ideas in real time.
- Use an affinity map or concept map to sort ideas according to common themes.
- Broad categories could include:
- digital footprint
- online safety
- respectful online behaviour.
- Ask students to consider all the ways they connect with technology on a typical day and connect this back to being a good digital citizen.
Supporting Resources
Padlet
Padlet is an easy-to-use collaboration tool that enables students to share ideas in real time.
OneNote
Users' notes (handwritten or typed), drawings, screen captures and audio commentaries can be shared with other OneNote users over the network.
Digital Life 101
Gain a better understanding of students’ familiarity with digital media and vocabulary associated with digital life. Requires registration for free use of materials.
iBrainstorm
iBrainstorm is a multi-device collaboration tool.
Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere is a collaboration tool.
Office 365
This tool allows students to create and share anywhere on any device.
Information privacy and security
This challenge teaches personal information security using the innovative approach of thinking from a hacker’s point-of-view.
Assessment
Suggested approaches may include
- Labelled diagram (affinity or concept map)
Activity Online communication
Why should people behave appropriately in an online world?
Australian Curriculum Alignment
- Collaborating and managing (ACTDIP022)
What's this about?
At this level it is important that students understand why they should behave appropriately. This includes respecting and protecting identities, not bullying, and taking steps to ensure their digital footprint is appropriate.
Learning tasks
- Discuss and ensure students understand protocols to use online; for example:
- ethical protocols may deal with copyright and fair use of others’ content and images
- social protocols may deal with respectful online behaviour, ways of providing feedback (eg not responding to hurtful or nasty comments), blocking and reporting cyberbullying
- technical protocols may deal with activating privacy settings to avoid divulging personal data such as images, addresses and names.
- Provide tasks that require students to develop a set of ‘rules’ about appropriate conduct, language and content when communicating online.
- Refer to these rules and apply them when collaborating with others online.
Supporting Resources
The Lost Summer
This app immerses players in a futuristic environment where they need to exercise personal and social capabilities such as critical thinking, empathy, resilience, respect and responsibility to complete challenges and advance through the game.
Digital citizenship
Students learn to think critically about the user information that some websites request or require.
The Office of the eSafety Commissioner: Standalone lesson plans for primary classes
Online safety resources for primary schools, supported by lesson plans and multimedia resources.
Digizen
Use this resource to discuss protocols.
Lesson Ideas
Assessment
Suggested approaches may include
- Adapted worksheet covering understanding of what is safe to share online
- Ability to express the permanence of online information or charter of rules
Activity Collaborate online
What protocols/guidelines help when collaborating online?
Australian Curriculum Alignment
- Collaborating and managing (ACTDIP022)
What's this about?
At this level it is important that students understand and apply agreed ethical, social and technical protocols.
Learning tasks
- Tools such as Google Docs enable students to collaborate on shared documents. Set up a task where students work in small groups to produce a document, spreadsheet or slide presentation on a relevant topic. It may be a video script, a collaborative story, a report on an excursion or a science investigation.
- As part of their studies students may be required to interview an expert to gather information. Students can include voice and video conversations from their computer using Google Hangouts or other suitable collaboration tools that offer these options, using agreed protocols.
- Schools may also use a platform that provides a closed online community to share student work with parents (eg Weebly or Seesaw).
Supporting Resources
Google Docs
Collaborate on shared documents.
Seesaw
This portfolio platform can be used to share student work with parents and peers. It models a safe, closed online community.
Weebly
This is an easy-to-use tool for creating classroom websites. Videos, images and text can be added using the drag-and-drop website editor. Students can also collaborate with others via blogs with comment moderation features allowing open, moderated or closed discussions.
Assessment
Suggested approaches may include
- Artefact analysis
- Students work collaboratively in an online space to design and create a short three-minute documentary to help younger students to be cyber safe
Activity Create a digital solution
How can I share ideas safely with others?
Australian Curriculum Alignment
- Collaborating and managing (ACTDIP022)
What's this about?
Online communication tools enable students to share ideas within and beyond the classroom – eg to collaborate and communicate with experts in other locations; to create and publish work for a global audience; and to share ideas with peers from other schools. Students benefit from being able to communicate and collaborate with their peers.
Learning tasks
- Providing a safe online learning space for sharing ideas offers an effective way to build relationships with students while exchanging ideas, offering feedback and engaging in more conversations.
- Creating a blog, website or contributing to an online learning space to share ideas enables students to apply agreed protocols and develop their digital identities.
- Students create their own website to record and present their learning. As part of the process students respectfully and constructively comment on each other’s webpage.
Lesson Ideas
Class blog
Investigate the concept, purpose and critical features of a good blog. Work through protocols when designing a class blog that displays a ‘public’ profile.
My digital portfolio
Students create their own website to record and present their learning. As part of the process students respectfully and constructively comment on each other’s webpage.
First site guide: How to start a blog
Use this site to learn about how to start a blog and create a website.
Assessment
Suggested approaches may include
- Artefact analysis
- Design plan (task allocation, timing, file management)