Today's pedagogy was about Cybersmart and more specifically using the right language when talking with our students. Here are the cybersmart lessons available on the Manaiakalani site. Check out my screencastify further down this blog post for a tour through one of the options 'Smart Learner'.
This smart learner lesson also carried into our session on Hapara - Teacher Dashboard. It was great to see the push for keeping it positive by always displaying dashboard not as a means to threaten kids or x them out of their tabs but rather as a 'norm' and focussing on more positive things like "Great to see ___ moving onto the next task..." We also covered many of the useful options available to us on dashboard. One new thing I found out was that I could see student's blogs which haven't been published yet and also anonymous comments that are highlighted in red. I need to make sure I check this more regularly as I never knew this.
I really enjoyed being in our students shoes and having a go at working off a chromebook and ipad. It definitely makes me realise just how talented students are who are able to draw detailed images on google draw as the touch pad is not as big and easy to manoeuvre as it is on a mac.
Our create challenge was to create a screencastify about one aspect of the cybersmart areas and talk through the lesson plans provided. Check out 'Smart Learner'.
We also registered for the Level 1 Google Exam for next. Looking forward to it.
