#EduGoalsMooc The Goal Minded Teacher: Challenges to Transform Student Learning. WEEK 4: FINAL REFLECTIONS.

#EduGoalsMooc The Goal Minded Teacher: Challenges to Transform Student Learning.

WEEK 4: FINAL REFLECTIONS.

WEEK 4 In MOOC The Goal Minded Teacher has brought along some steps forward in participants' teaching self view and skills.

Teacher Survival Kit:

On the one hand, we have had to take an insight to the way we manage our classes, including our relation with students and parents, time arrangement and problem solving. We have done it in a very funny way: creating an interactive image showing the materials (I have also included some ideas and feelings, tough) which help us be more flexible and proactive as teachers. It must include a code of conduct, which must be fully understood by all the students, especially the consequences of acting against it, as well as those "hard" or "soft" things that let the learning keep going no matter what happens.

A digital safety, citizenship, and learning resource for parents

We have taken a second challenge which has consisted on creating a website for the parents of my students to make them to understand how to help their children become better digital learners and citizens. The outcome was meant to be visual, user-friendly, and to provide resources aimed at the age group of my students.

We were invited to work with peers in pairs or small groups to complete this activity and during a couple of days I tried to collaborate with a peer who teaches the same age group as I do. Unfortunately a set of technical, professional and familiar problems have made it impossible.

My web site is named "Safer kids on the net" and it includes hints for parents to understand their kids' performance online. It also aims at showing the risks of the use of technology and, of course, at providing solutions in case of incidence. Further information can be read here.

I have done most of it in Spanish, since that is the only language most parents of must students can speak or read. Nevertheless, an English version is under construction to be used for anyone who wants to use it worldwide.

This task is linked with the one we did in WEEK 3 CHALLENGE #2, where we had to survey our students about their behavior online, their knowledge about their digital footprint and especially about their parents' attitude towards their performance online. In WEEK 3 FINAL REFLECTIONS I hinted some action lines which perfectly match the digital safety, citizenship, and learning resource for parents we have produced.

#EduGoalsMooc The Goal Minded Teacher: Challenges to Transform Student Learning WEEK 4 CHALLENGE #2. Design a digital safety, citizenship, and learning resource for parents.

#EduGoalsMooc The Goal Minded Teacher: Challenges to Transform Student Learning 

WEEK 4 CHALLENGE #2. Design a digital safety, citizenship, and learning resource for parents.

After taking out and showing all the stuff we usually carry in our backpack, we have become aware that we are in control of what happens in our classes. In fact we have always been but this getting nude exercise is a sort of empowering and recognition to ourselves. As a next step in this learning path  we have been asked to create a resource, website, or presentation for the parents of my students to let them understand how to help their children become better digital learners and citizens.

This task links up with the one we did as WEEK 3 CHALLENGE #2: Survey students about their digital footprints, which was aimed at gaining  a deeper understanding of our students’ digital activities. By doing so I was able to gain an understanding of what was my students' awareness of their digital footprint and what their parents would (or wouldn't) do to care about their kids' behavior online.

In addition, in WEEK 3 FINAL REFLECTIONS I exposed some of the conclusions that could be drawn after considering my students' answers to the survey:

1. they start using the net and the social networks at an early age: 10 years old;
2. Most parents are apparently concerned with what their sons do online, although they do nothing to check effectively their deeds.
3. A high percentage of them post pics and videos of themselves on social networks, regardless of the future consequences it may have.
4. Kids are absolutely unaware of what their digital footprint is and how it could affect them in the future.

Then I stated that  some kind of action should be taken about this and made clear the different levels of digital abilities that the three parts in the problem possess. It was necessary for parents and teachers to undergo a training process to get the necessary qualification to be able to cope with this issue effectively.  

And so, here I come with this very simple website where I collect information taken from INCIBE (Instituto Nacional de Ciberseguridad) and OSI (Oficina de Seguridad del Internauta). However, prior to being assessed by peers,I would like to make clear couple of facts about my choices:

1. It was my intention to work with a colleague and had in a collaborative product. Unfortunately some technical, professional and familiar problems have made ir impossible. I must apologize for the delay I may have caused her unwillingly.
2. I have decided to write it in Spanish so that I can use it immediately with my students' parents. Yet a translating gadget has been added to enable getting an English translation while the full English version is finished.

I hope you like and enjoy My digital safety, citizenship and learning resource for parents. Needless to say, It would be great if it were useful.