Grade 1 Learns Internet Safety Through Play Today, our Grade 1 students enjoyed a fun and engaging library workshop focused on an important topic: internet safety. Using the familiar game Red Light, Green Light, students learned how to make safe choices when they are online. This interactive workshop is part of the Common Sense Education … Continue reading Red Light, Green Light – Learning About Internet Safety
Common Sense Education Workshop – Why We Pause for People Today grade 4 got a workshop about what ‘active listening’ means. How can we show others that we are giving them respect and paying attention? We discussed all of the ways we can do this in the classroom and in our daily lives; closing our … Continue reading Grade 4 Workshop About Active Listening
Our grade two class got to meet some fun friends today, the super cute Common Sense Media Digital Citizens! Each one represents a different aspect of digital citizenship; Arms: Use your arms when you’re online to balance your time. Guts: Listen to your gut to stay safe online. Feet: Use your feet carefully when leaving … Continue reading Introduction to Digital Citizenship
Today students were introduced to the concept of a Digital Footprint. We used the example of tracks left by animals and how we can use our own deductive capabilities to infer quite a lot about an animal based on its tracks. The same is true for us when we go online. The sites we visit, … Continue reading What is a Digital Footprint?