Week 5 Reflection: One Best Thing: Student-Centered eSafety: Promoting Online Safety with Creative App
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For this reflection I chose the One Best Thing book Student-Centered eSafety: Promoting Online Safety with Creative Apps by Chris Carter. Chris is an award winning educator who is a big supporter of technology use in the classroom. He believes that if used correctly, technology can help inspire and motivate learning. Chris is now and adviser for Herts for Learning and is striving to educate teachers and students on learning with technology. This book contains ideas and suggestions for teaching internet safety to students while using technology inside and outside of the classroom. Children are increasingly gaining access to technology at younger ages, so internet safety is important now more than ever. This book also gives creative tips for using iPads to support teaching.
What I learned: The key eSafety messages that Chris Carter wants to get across to children are: be nice online just as you would in real life, think before you post because once it is online it is there forever, don't give away personal information just as you wouldn't in real life, don't share your password or make it too easy to guess, check your settings often to ensure things are private, don't open attachments and messages from people you don't know or trust to prevent viruses, remember that people online might not be who they say they are, never meet up with someone you only know online because they are technically still strangers and could have lied about their identity, and tell someone you trust if anything happens online that upsets you or worries you. Chris outlines 6 ways to use iPads/technology in the classroom. I learned something new with all of them even though some of them I have utilized myself as a student. The ideas are a comic/graphic novel, a digital puppetry, a movie trailer, a facial animation, an eSafety podcast, and an electronic book. Nothing really surprised me about this iBook because I already knew that eSafety is a current issue. I did learn useful ways to use iPads with students and the importance of teaching eSafety. I think that this iBook is a great source and that all of my classmates would benefit from reading it before becoming teachers. I think it is so important for us to teach our students eSafety, especially if they are not getting this education at home. I also loved the ideas that the author had for iPad projects. They are unique and could be taken in so many different directions. |