In the last Digital Bytes for the academic year, we feature: – Why Wunderlist Works – an app to manage task lists collaboratively;– The 10 Most Valued Work Skills in 2020; and– Apps that help limit time on the iPad. All the best for a wonderful end to the year.
Category: digital citizenship
Digital Bytes 18th May
In this week’s Digital Bytes, we learn why “How much screen time?” is the wrong question, how coding can help us learn how to learn, and how playing video games for 10 minutes a day can improve maths scores.
Digital Bytes March 9th 2015
This week’s Digital Bytes features some excellent apps (organised by age level) for Coding, Art, Music, Writing and Film-making, a tutorial for moving incorrectly placed content in a Google Site, and some advice for parents for talking about Digital Citizenship at home with their children.
Parenting in the Digital Age
As parents, we all want what is best for our children. Kids are growing up in a digital age that is much different than the one we grew up in. Many parents are coming to grips with how they approach digital technology usage in their home. There are many approaches and every family and situation…
Heartbleed Headaches & How to Make Them Go Away
My favourite quote about passwords has always been: “Passwords are like underwear: we should not leave them lying around, and should change them regularly.“ – Unknown Most of us manage the first part quite nicely and keep our passwords hidden, however changing them regularly? That is another kettle of fish entirely! I’m sure by now you…
Grade 1 Students Start Blogging with Easy Blogger Jr
At UWCSEA we like to empower our students to share their learning in lots of different ways. They take charge at Student-Led Conferences, and interact with various service groups as part of the school year. In Grade 1, we wanted to add blogging to an authentic audience to the list, both as a part of…
Email, Spam, YouTube Subscriptions and Snopes
One of the many wonderful things about having Google Apps at our school is that our students are able to have GMail accounts. This really does enable them to have the functionality we adults enjoy with having an email, with the added bonus of learning to use it in a supportive school environment. It allows…
Digital Citizenship in the Primary School
Below is a summary of the main points from our parent workshop on Digital Citizenship in the Primary School. You will also find links to some of the tools/sites we recommended in the session. Our approach to Digital Citizenship UWCSEA is one of the pilot schools for the Generation Safe 360 Assessment. This rigorous approach…
5 Minutes to Safer Searching & Viewing
We always want to help our students find the most relevant information when searching or viewing content online. Here are two great suggestions which can lead to a safer online experience for our students. 1. View Purewww.viewpure.com is a site which allows you to ‘purify’ YouTube videos by stripping away the comments section and the…