engaging student leaders for common sense digital citizenship
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Engaging Student Leaders for Common Sense Digital Citizenship
Sol SenrickTech Coach/Co-Director of Digital LearningAmerican School of Warsaw
http://www.teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/digital-citizenship-the-future-of-learning/moving-students-from-digital-citizenship-to-digital-leadership/
Can you create three stories from these fragments?
8th Grader
New adult Ukranian friend
A self-made, emotional video about anxiety
Broadcast on Social Media
A 7th grader’s concerned parent
Online distractions
Incomplete school work
Shares another student’s personal information
Teasing and harassment
Our students need it now. What do we do?
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• How do we build students’ Digital Citizenship?
• What strategies and resources do you use or know of?
Outcomes
• Have some resources for Digital Citizenship
• Have strategies to engage, manage, involve students in digital citizenship instruction
• General tech tools
ASW’s Journey
• Scattered, inconsistent program
• Digital Learning Team, Alignment, and one day in the principal’s office…
• Why Common Sense Media?
• Scope and Sequence
• Dynamic Content
• A Target Goal—Certification!
• Your turn: Dig, Share, Build
How might we incorporate this into the Middle School?
(Who, what, when, where, why…)
Team TimeOne week every other month
T,W,TH-20 min
Engage students from every grade/team time
Plan, Persevere, Perspire Teacher Buy-In
Team Time Tech Leaders: The Foundation
Planning
• Identify Theme/Learning Goal• Identify/modify Common Sense Resources• Gather some data--diagnostic
Preparation
• Plan lesson/Design Challenges• Go through plan with Student Leaders/Modify as needed• Share plan with Teachers
Implementation/Reflection
• Support student leaders• Announcement/resources shared in parent communication• Celebration/Reflection
General 6-week PlanWhat resonates? What’s missing? What would you do differently?
Case Study: Which Me Should I Be?
Planning
• Learner Profile Trait-Risk Taker; Digital Footprint• Resources on Common Sense Media
Preparation
• Digital Compass/Inklewriter Challenge• Met with students twice at lunch: Presentation modified, Student Plan • Shared plan with Teachers in grade level meetings
Implementation/Reflection
• Lunch time check-ins, Floating between team times• Attended parent meeting; shared resource in weekly grade level email• Recognized challenge participants; Feedback from students/teachers
The Challenge!• Root it in the desired outcome
• Incorporate 21st Century Skills—Creativity, Collaboration, Critical Thinking
• Hits the sweet spot for challenge
• Advertise like crazy
• Celebrate—Mystery Sur-Prizes
Self Control Challenge—Videos and Comments
Privacy Setting Challenge • Use digital citizenship resources to learn how to set your privacy settings
• Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Kik, Instagram, Snapchat, Whatsapp
• Skype
• Set the privacy settings on your Social Media
• Share evidence of your settings with your team time tech leader
• Team times with most success will be recognized!
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Digital Compass/Inklewriter Challenge
Results? What does data say?
What students like (in their own words…)• I can help people and show them what they can do to change.
It is fun and we learn a lot.
• I like getting up there and speaking and telling them about real life, relatable, instances. About how people feel and why they do the things they do online.
• I like the feeling of leadership. I can add ideas to improve the lessons, so I'm sort of like a teacher.
• I like being able to lead and make a difference for how people use social media
• I like being able to lead a class and discuss problems and benefits with my peers from the viewpoint a teacher or sorts.
Do you think it helps?• I think what we are doing is help those students
that care about their online identity but only those students that listen and take it seriously
• I think it does really help my classmates learn about digital citizenship because team time tech leaders are the same years old so they can learn because we explain things like they would and understand.
• I am helping some of my classmates think about what they post online.
• Although almost none of them will admit it, it will make at least half of them more aware of what they post, at least subconsciously.
What advice would you give?• My advice is making it as active or engaging for the students. For
example, making challenges like we did so they get motivated to try these things.
• Other schools should also have leaders and I can tell them that it is worth it even though it might seem scary at first.
• I would say yes, and I would advise them to make it interactive.
• However, each school should firstly get to know their students, so that as much of their activities can be relatable as possible. For example, most of us don't meet people online that we never knew, so activities about that wouldn't be needed very often. However, we should have a majority of activities about posting inappropriate things online and our privacy settings - this should be in every school.
In students’ own words…(continued)• Some advice I would give to the students is to not worry because they will have all the slides,
movies, scenrios, and every thing to say. And if the students don't want to answer there questions and aren't raising there hand and they don't speak at all. They should just call on them and just ask them to answer there questions.
• The advice I have is to have a good student selected that will be taken seriously and have a supervisor like a teacher in the room so that the kids don't just totally goof off.
• Some advice that I would have is that the tech time leader should try to involve everyone, especially when its a class that are still learning english. Also when there is something on the board they should read it slowly. Lastly try to make it fun and not make it seem like you were forced to be teaching them.
So what? Now what?
• What do you think? What might you take away from this presentation?
• What advice would you have for us moving forward?
• What do I plan to do next?