Using Web 2.0 Tools to Teach
Online
Safety Education In the
Intermediate Grades
Problem: What is the best way for educators teach online safety education?
Research:
- Educators in a digital age need to be “taking advantage of emerging media in ways that benefit learning” (Hrastinski, 2008, p.55).
- There is great potential for Web 2.0 applications in the classroom when teachers can align instructional activities with the applications and incorporate Web 2.0 tools (Light & Polin, 2010).
- When youth are given more freedom and autonomy to use digital media in an educational environment, they are often more motivated to participate and engage in their learning (Ito et al., 2008).
- When enriching curriculum with interactive online tools, the intent would be to engage the audience in a self-directed fashion (van Hamel, 2011).
- Materials need to be created that allow students to develop “net literacy and safe surfing practices that enable pupils to use the Internet responsibly and usefully both in and outside school” (Wishart, 2011 p. 203).
- Educating students about the social and emotional issues that can arise from using this new technology will help develop responsible, sensible and respectful digital citizens (O'Keeffe and Clarke-Pearson, 2011).
- Students can benefit from supported programs that are about cyber-safety in an effort to shape their cyber-safe habits (Barr and Masters, 2009).
- Educators need to focus more attention on risk avoidance and strategies for coping with risk (d'Haenens, et al. 2013).
- Online resilience is a child’s ability to deal with negative online experiences. Children develop online resilience through exposure to risks and stressful events (d'Haenens, et al. 2013).
- “Building resilience among young people – what might be termed ‘filters in the mind’ - will ultimately be the more powerful strategy” (The Telnor Group, 2013, p. 9).
- A “monitoring or mediating approach seems to be more beneficial for children’s online resilience than a restrictive one” (d'Haenens et al., 2013, p. 1).
Project
- Create a website that houses a series on 10 lesson the focus on "Online Safety".
- Nine of the ten lessons will contain a video from netsafeutah. Students will be asked to watch the video and then demonstrate their learning by using a variety of different Web 2.0 tools. Each lesson will focus on one video and use a specific Web 2.0 tool..
- In the final lesson, students will use a predetermined Web 2.0 tool to summarize their learning about the previous 9 lessons.
- The website will also contain pages for educators that include Learning Objectives and brief descriptions of all the Web 2.0 tools to be used.
- A Parents page will be provided that informs parents of key risks, additional resources for parents and an explanation of why consent is required.
- Within each lesson, a rubric will be available fro teachers to asses student work. Teachers can post the completed rubric on student blogs for each lesson they complete.
- Originally, I was going to use Kidblog as a way for students to communicate and post their work. But, because of limited storage space, I have decided to create a blog for each student through a class Weebly.
Videos used are from netsafeutah and are licensed under a Creative Common
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Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
Under the following terms:
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
Solution: Use Web 2.0 tools to teach online safety education and allow students to represent their learning.
References:
Barr, S. & Masters, J. (2009). Young children online: e-learning in a social networking context. Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal, 1(4), 295-304. Retrieved from http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication/article/viewFile/42/33
d'Haenens, L., Vandoninck, S., & Donoso, V. (2013). How to cope and build online resilience? EU Kids Online, Retrieved from http://www.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/research/EUKidsOnline/EU Kids III/Reports/Copingonlineresilience.pdf
Hrastinski,S. (2008). Asynchronous and synchronous e-learning. Educause Quarterly, 4, 51-55. Retrieved:, http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0848.pdf
Ito, M. Horst, H. Bittani, M. et al. (2008). Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project. Chicago, IL: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning. Retrieved from http://digitalyouth. ischool.berkeley.edu/files/report/digitalyouth TwoPageSummary.pdf
O'Keeffe, G., & Clarke-Pearson, K. (2011). The impact of social media on children, adolescents, and families. Pediatrics, 127(4), 800-804. doi: 10.1542/peds.2011-0054. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/127/4/800.full
Light, D., & Polin, D. (2010). Integrating web 2.0 tools in the classroom: Changing the culture oflearning. Center for Children and Technology, Retrieved from http://cct.edc.org/sites/cct.edc.org/files/publications/Integrating Web2.0.PDF
Telnor Group. (2013). Building digital resilience. The Boston Consulting Group. Retrieved from http://www.telenor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Telenor-report-Building-Digital-Resilience.pdf
van Hamel, A. (2011). The privacy piece: Report on privacy competencies in digital literacy programs in Canada, Britain, Australia, America, and brazil. Ottawa, Ontario: Media Awareness Network. Retrieved from https://www.priv.gc.ca/information/researchrecherche/2011/hamel_201111_e.pdf
Wishart, J. (2004). Internet safety in emerging educational contexts. Computers and Education, 43, 193-204. Retrieved from http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0360131503001519/1-s2.0-S0360131503001519-main.pdf?_tid=1e94bb8e-c6ac-11e3-ad4a00000aacb362&acdnat=1397793010_2debc8ec58d4b2914d97b470142fefb5