Media Literacy with Julie Smith

 I just watched another great webinar online ditch summit. Julie Smith presented a great worshop on Media Literacy and the ever changing media world our students live in. She really made me think about how I work in the cybersmart curriculum we have and how our students world online and how they connect and relate. Our students live in a short form video world of flashy and exciting quick videos. Are we helping, coaching, and supporting them to understand the context? We need to stop worrying about the content and talk about the process. I also learnt what Smishing is, text message phishing the key topic is missed connections. We need to be teaching coping skills and how to deal with the ever changing tech world and how to keep themselves safe. Learn about the laws, the small print and rules of apps and games they are signing up to. How to self track, and use google reverse image search. A great hour of thought provoking and good questions to think about. 

Why is Tic Tok different in China than the rest of the world?

Relationship Building

It is so important to bulid relationships with the students in your classrooms. I may only be in the classes for 1 hour a week but the students see me in the school and other classes. They also see me in the community. So this year I made a google drawing to introdcue myself with my Pepeha and photos and information about myself. Connections where made with many students also coming from the some iwi and having very simular pepeha. But over all my cat was the winner on the day. As I vist each week I am often asked how my cat Tutu is.

Book Creator

 It was great to introduce the book creator tool into cyber smart lessons. An exciting and vibrant tool that creates books, fun templates, and an easy way to add a voice recording. The students enjoyed the tool and I gave them a lot of time to explore and try out the many tools. The teacher created an account and shared the code with the students so all their books were in the class library which made it easy to share the learning on the big screen.  I think teachers will use this option more in the creative part of learning.