Digital citizens

What does a digital citizen look like?  Using Hector's World that has catchy and relevant video clips explaining what digital awareness is helped us to unpack digital citizenship.

Using the printable booklets from Hector's World as part of our reading programme has helped children make meaningful connections that comes with integration as well as providing engaging, purposeful and authentic learning experiences.

We have begun to create posters using Comic Life explaining how to be safe on the internet that we will share with other classrooms.  I'd like to make eye popping posters using pic collage now that I have found you can save a bunch of photos to google docs and download them using google drive app!  Hallelujah!!

At the last Hector's World clip we created Our Discoveries and Wonderings as well as commenting on our blog post  how to be safe on the internet allowed us to practice what we have learnt.

I personally think this is something that needs to be built into our teaching programme each year and revisited throughout the year until it becomes second nature to the children, parents and staff.  What are your thoughts?

20% time

I have no special talents.  I am passionately curious

Albert Einstien 1952

I wanted to bring more creativity into the classroom but I struggle to timetable this in.  I proposed turning our Goldentime into 20% time or genius time from an idea that Google provides it's staff. They work on their own projects on Google time, but anything created is Google property such as Gmail and GAFE. (How great would it be to be allowed to develop, design or to research something that would be beneficial to our school? Outside of CRT and our other responsibilities!!) 

I looked into what genius time would look like in LC 10 and found some inspiring ideas.

Creating iMovies, learning coding (hopscotch or scratch), developing artistic skills further, learning stop motion animation, designing a simple butterfly garden the ideas are endless... Time is not however.

Thinking an essential part of learning... Indeed if you are not thinking about what you are learning, you are not probably not learning Jim Knight, Unmistakable Impact 

This was an idea I pitched back in term 2 for term 3 needless to say it hasn't been implemented :-(. Maybe an inquiry What is creativity? What makes me creative?

http://www.rundesroom.com/2013/11/passion-projects-in-classroom.html