Cont.- Web Safety in the 21st Century

What are the essential elements that should be addressed by an effective classroom technology policy guide for the grade level that you teach?

When doing research for my action research project I came across this great table that shows a parallel between the ISTE Standards and the Piagetian cognitive development scale.

In case you want to view the chart it is on page 31-32.

Moursund, D. (n.d.). Human and machine intelligence. In Computers in education
for talented and gifted students: A book for elementary and middle school
teachers (pp. (31-32)). Retrieved from http://uoregon.edu/%7emoursund/
Books/TAG/TAG.html

What Internet safety issues should students and parents, at your grade level, be informed of?

The best Internet safety issues for my kindergarten parents would be to make sure there is a child’s browser assigned to their child to prevent the child getting on any inappropriate sites. However, with kindergarten age I would suggest that the parents join a site like Kid Dot. This is a website that allows the parents to build a home page for their child with their favorite sites. This site also makes suggestions of sites that are age appropriate.

Web Safety in the 21st Century Classroom

Being a kindergarten teacher I decided that the best way to explain the Internet rules for my students would be to show you a video that I found online. Of course, first I needed to figure out how to add a URL link to the video. Once I thought I figured it out I found out that Blogger.com was experiencing technical difficulty. I became locked out of my blog and discovered I wasn’t alone when I went to report my error message. It’s been over two hours and I still can’t access my blog so I will cut and paste and try to finish the other parts of this assignment.

What technology skills should be acquired by students at the grade level that you teach?

Enjoy this video with McGruff and Techno Cat on Internet safety for the elementary age student!