Cybersafety

Yesterday I ran a session on Cybersafety in my class. Very Briefly this is how I do it.

Firstly I believe that running a one off unit in cybersafety at the beginning of the year is flawed for two reasons:
1) I don't have enough time to do everything else let alone another unit.
2) It's tough to expect kids to remember something now in September we did briefly in February.

So I integrate my cybersafety lessons into my reading program. Once a fortnight or so showing the kids a video or 'internet game' on cybersafey like you would a shared book. When I do this I make clear our WALT is what ever we are working on in reading.

Here are some examples:

WALT: understand the text better by making predictions
We know we have achieved this when we can…

1. Look for clues to the topic
2. Think about what we already know about the topic
3. Use what we already know about the topic to predict what we think will happen next.

3 pigs

WALT: understand the text better by making inferences

We know we have achieved this when we can…

1. Find the clues hidden in the text.
2. Remember our own experiences that are related to these clues
3. Make predictions about the implied meaning based on our own experiences and with the clues the author has given us.

WALT: understand the text better by making connections
We know we have achieved this when we can…

1. breaking the text into smaller parts (pausing every now and then)
2. Making text to self connections
3. making text to text connections
4. making text to world connections