Monday, January 21, 2013

Acceptable use and developing an aide memoir

On Monday Year 6 students at TX Campus, spent time working with Robyn Treyvaud . Robyn was focusing on living and growing up in a digital world and getting the students to think about being a digital citizen. She noted that being a good digital citizen is basically just the same as being a good
citizen. You don’t bully in the real world, you don’t bully on line. Robyn showed a video clip called Crossing the Line or Where are you? Although a bit old for our students the video emphasised the need for boundaries  Do you stay on the plus side and be a model citizen or do we cross the line to the negative side and display unwanted behaviours ?
I've been concerned for ages about not having some form of acceptable use policy in my ICT room
Yesterday I began work, on the back of Robyn's work to get the Year 6 students to write some form of slogan and take ownership of it.  All  year 6 students came to my room and we spent time thinking and talking about being a digital citizen and crossing or not crossing the line. We used the application Inspiration to record, arrange and colour our ideas. What I would like to have is  an aide memoir with 6 or so catchy sayings that can be applied to ICT usage and behaviour in my room. Year 6 will develop the first aide memoir /  acceptable use policy in children speak which gives them the opportunity to work cooperatively towards a common goal.

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