Archive – Digital Citizenship

With Karen Bonanno, Managing Director, Eduwebinar Pty Ltd
Webinar replays – approximately 60 minutes each

As schools move more towards edtech integration in the classroom, addressing the development of digital citizenship skills, even from the youngest age, is pretty important to help students communicate and collaborate safely and responsibly online.

This three-part series on digital citizenship explores Ribble’s nine elements of digital citizenship, learning activities and strategies to support the development of digital citizenship skills across all year levels, and the Australian Curriculum connections for Digital Technologies and the general capabilities.

Webinar 1 – Student learning and academic performance
Webinar 2 – School environment and student behaviour
Webinar 3 – Life outside the school environment

This webinar series will help you:

• Define digital citizenship in the context of education.
• Identify why it is important to incorporate digital citizenship in the classroom.
• Understand the scope of each element and its relevance to knowledge and skills development.
• Select activities and teaching strategies for classroom use to support knowledge and skills development.
• Align digital citizenship to the Australia Curriculum.

This webinar is aligned to the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers:
3.3.2 – Using teaching strategies
3.4.2 – Select and use resources

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With Helen Stower and Kathryn Schravemade, Mt Alvernia College
Webinar replay – 60 minutes

A key goal of future proof education is to ensure students are engaging with information, people and technologies as connected learners and that this engagement is effective, safe and ethical.

In a particular school setting, it was identified that traditional ICT subjects focused on the development of software usage skills, which no longer supported the evolving needs of students.  Instead Helen and Kathryn needed students to develop skills in digital citizenship so that they could participate effectively in an online and networked world.  Retech (Research and Technology) is a Middle Years learning experience that has developed in response to this need.

The presentation explores some of the skills taught in Retech:

• Cybersafety & building a positive digital footprint;
• Information literacies such as smart searching, curation, effective note taking, licensing and attribution;
• Using blogs and social media for building a PLN (Personal Learning Network);
• Collaboration through shared bookmarks, notes & Google Groups;
• Inquiry and problem solving; and
• Creating and presenting with digital tools such as video productions, podcasts and infographics.

Participants will leave this session with:

• An outline of the Retech model and its place within the whole school curriculum;
• An overview of the content and strategies used to build robust digital citizens through connecting, researching, creating and collaborating;
• Resources used with students;
• Tools utilised and skills developed by students;
• Resources used to engage parents; and
• Teacher professional development offered.

This webinar aligns with the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers:
3.3.2 – Use teaching strategies
3.4.2 – Select and use resources

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With Karen Bonanno, Eduwebinar Pty Ltd
Webinar replay – 60 minutes

Global connectivity, new media, smart machines and superstructured organisations are some of the drivers that reshape how we think about the future working world and the skills needed to be responsible consumers and creators.

This webinar explores:

• critical skills business owners are looking for,
• key drivers and trends of change in the world of work, and
• learning spaces, digital technologies and strategies that support skill development.

From this webinar you will be able to:

• identify future work skills for student success,
• design learning spaces to support critical skill development,
• define technologies and digital strategies to integrate into the classroom.

This webinar aligns with the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers:
3.3.2 – Use teaching strategies
3.4.2 – Select and use resources

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