YouTube
Watch THIS VIDEO first! Learned something new? Useful? Quietube is a useful tool that allows you to share YouTube videos with students without all the distractions. It can help students who are easily distracted to avoid wondering off when they see other videos on the right hand side of the normal YouTube screen. It will also help avoid students seeing inappropriate videos that may also show up as suggested videos. |
Children Friendly Search Engines
In the Remote Learning Plan, ask parents to assist students with a research task highlighting that young students should always be supervised/guided when researching online. Give younger students at least two or three suggested websites to get information from. If research is open ended, child friendly search engines such as Kidrex or Kiddle could be suggested. However, ensure you have done a prior search yourself to make sure students will find the information they are looking for. Other search strategies such as key words and Advanced Google Search could be used by older students to narrow down results by file type, domains, eliminating or combining certain key words. |
Images and Videos for Projects
Children don't need to wait till they speak with the ICT Teacher or Technology Coach to learn research strategies. It is everyone's responsibility to teach and model digital citizenship skills. While the specialist teacher can be brought in for a discussion or activity around this, teachers can model good digital citizenship skills by using sites such as Pixabay, Pexels and Unsplash when looking for images or video content to use with students. They can encourage students to use these websites by saying thing like "Be sure to look for free to use images from Pixabay, Pexels or Unsplash". |