Wednesday 25th January 13.55 - 14.25: Supporter to Reporter (S2R) & Open Badging
Highlights from S2R
Free Workshop at the Nominet Trust Dome
S2R is a highly-acclaimed national project where young sports reporters create video, audio and blogs from grassroots games and world finals. They gain confidence, skills and workplace know-how through an empowering new way of learning - their social media expertise and creativity are at the centre.
You will see the profound learner impact of this multi award-winning London 2012 project and learn how your students can take part.
You will find out about S2R Badging, an innovative Mozilla-backed way to reward and evidence the 21st Century skills learnt through the project. Badging is a new approach to recognising not just ‘hard skills’ but in-demand ‘soft skills’ like collaboration and coaching.
Wednesday 25th January 11.00 - 11.30:
Safe - The Certificate in Safe Social Networking
Preview to Lesson 1.1 Setting up a Safe Profile tutorial
Free Workshop at the Nominet Trust Dome
Social media stars from Buckingham School show us the skills and enjoyment they’ve got from this hands-on programme in safe social networking. Teachers explain how this positive digital project prepares pupils for the social web, through fun media creation.
Safe has a unique take on social media in schools. We believe that its safe and enjoyable use should be encouraged and taught in the classroom - sometimes by young people themselves.
You will find out how to take part in Safe for free, joining over 1,000 other schools who are working towards the Safe Award.
We will also be giving away a Safe Teacher Pack for free during the session!
Social networking and sharing content are becoming an integral part of family life. They provide enormous opportunities to develop creative, critical thinking and communication skills at home, school and in the workplace. Safe Family, developed by the creators of Safe - the Certificate in Social Networking, has been launched for Safer Internet Day, 7th February 2012.
Safe Family Activities
Inspired by the theme ‘Connecting Generations’, Safe Family Activities encourage people of all ages to share their experiences of staying safe through completing practical tasks together on social networks.
Families can complete the activities at home by downloading the resources from the Safe Family website and using simple on line tools to create profiles, blogs and comments. Schools and libraries will host Safe Family learning sessions for children, parents and grandparents; connecting the generations to help each other stay safe online. The activities are perfect for people new to social networks, both young and old - so get connecting!
Safe Family Activities include: 1. Create a Safe Profile 2. Get Blogging! 3. Connect and Comment
On completion of activities, families can register & download the ‘Connecting Generations 2012’ Safe Family Certificate.
We are looking for Schools and Libraries around the UK to take part by hosting and inviting families along to complete the activities! The first 10 Schools and Libraries to register for Safe Family and quote the promo code 'SIDFamily2012' will receive free Safe Posters to promote your Safe Family event.
If you have already registered for Safe, please email safe@digitalme.co.uk and quote the promo code 'SIDFamily2012'.
Join Safe
Safe is the Certificate in Safe Social Networking and is an easy to follow programme of practical activities for schools. Pupils learn the basics of using social networks and progress to creating their own media and understanding about their ‘digital footprint’. Safe is mapped to the KS2 ICT curriculum and is a perfect match for schools wanting to cover e-safety under their general safeguarding responsibilities. To sign up to Safe go towww.safesocialnetworking.org . If you need a moderated social media platform for your school to run your Safe activities, Radiowaves is the perfect match. To sign up to Radiowaves go to www.radiowaves.co.uk/join
Safer Internet Day 2012 – Connecting Generations
Safer Internet Day 2012 is celebrated worldwide and this year is an opportunity toencourage users young and old to "discover the digital world together safely". Aninspirational array of activity is taking place nationwide, coordinated by the UK Safer Internet Centre (www.saferinternet.org.uk), with all activities focusing attention onempowering all generations to safely benefit from the opportunities that the internet offers.
For further information on national activities taking place for Safer Internet Day, please visitwww.saferinternet.org.uk
In October 2010 DigitalME Launched the Safe Social Networking Certificate. Social networking and sharing content online is now an integral part of young people's lives. It provides many opportunities for them to develop creative and communication skills in ways that are relevant to them, in school or at home.
However, with these new opportunities come many new choices. How do we help children make positive and informed choices when creating and sharing online?
Safe aims to provide practical activities and a framework to help pupils develop as aware and active digital citizens. Safe is designed for primary school pupils ages 7-11 and there a two levels to complete, which cover activities such as creating a safe username and password, blogging, making and sharing media and much more.We’ve had a successful first year with over 1,000 primary schools signing up to complete Safe.
The online world is constantly changing, so we’ve been working hard to update all our resources, as well as creating more support documents and new extension activities.
On Monday 17th October you will be able to download the new resources from the Safe website. We are also pleased to announce that we will be launching a new Safe project for secondary schools in the near future.
The Nominet Trust has once again supported DigitalMe's aim of equipping pupils with the skills and knowledge to safely use social networks and social media.
These latest resources will allow secondary aged pupils to use the knowledge they already have of social networks to teach and mentor younger pupils online, as well looking at how social media skills can be used in their future careers.
We will be looking for schools to pilot Safe Secondary, so if you are interested in taking part, please email safe@digitalme.co.uk and register here to keep up to date with the latest news.
Safe is a unique new project that gives primary pupils a real-life way of learning e-safety through social networking. Practical activities develop children’s skills, confidence and safety awareness online.
Since children are going online at younger and younger ages, internet safety campaigns and initiatives must be tailored towards younger age groups,...this has implications for curricula and teacher training in primary schools. 57% of 9-16 year olds have a social networking profile
Safe complements and adds to initiatives like the DfE and UKCCis’s Zip it Block it Flag it, by offering a safe and authentic way to practice these skills.
Safe trains pupils to ask, before they share information:
Who will see what you share? How do you control this?
What are you sharing? Is it yours? What personal information are you sharing? How will it affect others?
Where are you sharing things? Is this the best place?
Teacher resources enable any primary school to easily deliver fun Safe activities. Pupils complete 10 key criteria, which give them the proven ability to carry out a full range of social networking activities – safely. On completion, they receive the Certificate in Social Networking Safety.
The key outcome is that young people develop their ‘internal capacity’ to protect themselves, feel confident and spot danger online. Like cycling proficiency or swimming lessons, we want children to do safely what they enjoy and benefit from.
Just as importantly, teachers and LA staff gain the skills, confidence and resources to offer Safe to future classes and to spread best practice to other schools.
Statistics
40,000 primary pupils benefiting from the Safe programme
10 UK Local Authorities receiving intensive training
150+ Local Authorities signed up for free resources
We are extremely proud to be the first school to complete SAFE. The reasons we started using SAFE materials and aiming for the certificates was we had been looking for ways to help children be safe online. Most of the other materials we found only covered some aspects of online safety. SAFE however is systematic and covers all the aspects that we knew children needed to understand in order for them to use the internet with confidence and in a manner which was not going to expose them to abuse. We also knew that if DigitalMe was recommending it, that the product would have been well researched and delivered in a child friendly manner.
The use of Radiowaves by our school community has enhanced both our curriculum, and our pastoral care of the children as well as giving us a greater sense of community. Children have learnt how to be positive with one another, but also how to help each other develop their ideas. They have push the boundaries of their knowledge tremendously as they have been desperate to include new features on their pages. They knew that they could ask in this community for help to learn new skills. Children are delighted to share their skills or mentor each other in acquiring them.
