Living and learning safely with the net

(This is the public version of this course - see the discussion tab for background info)

Overview

Introduction

Audience

Parents and professionals working with learners of all ages. Eg teachers, youth workers, educational professionals, students, early years practitioners, adult educators, ...

Aims

By the end of the course you will have an understanding of web technologies and how to use them safely ad effectively.

Outcomes

• Knowledge and Understanding
  • To understand current and emerging web technologies and their applications
  • To understand the educational and collaborative potential of web technologies
  • To understand the issues related to safety and the need to safeguard users
  • To have knowledge and understandings of relevant legislative frameworks

• Cognitive skills
  • Applying your knowledge and understanding to the safe use of the web in a range of contexts
  • To be able to describe, analyse and synthesise knowledge relevant to the effective use of web technologies

• Key skills
  • Learning how to learn
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Critically evaluating and using information

• Practical and professional skills
  • To have developed your practical and professional competence in using web technologies
  • To be able to locate and critically apply relevant legislative frameworks
  • To demonstrate creativity in applying web technologies safely in your personal and/or professional contexts
  • To demonstrate an awareness of relevant ethical issues

Safety issues

This will be about issues to do with keeping yourself and other people safe whilst working on this course ...

Web technologies

What are web 2.0 technologies

Follow this link and explore … What are web 2.0 technologies

Audit

Ideally this will be an interactive web form that you fill in – when you've finish you will be able to click a button to get a summary of what you need to do next.

As a starting point we may just have to go with a nice table that folk fill in and then work out for themselves where their development needs are ...

Developing your own use Setting up your course blog How do I use x Developing your own use of web 2.0 technologies	Applications of web technologies Go explore some examples ... (we need to develop a page which provides links to lots of examples)	Safety issues What are the risks Web safety - what are the risks Discuss the risks This will take you to a page that explains what you have to discuss – linked with the key points that you identified in the previous activity.
Supporting learning		Frameworks and guidance

Pulling it all together

In this task you will reflect upon your own practice and development – referring to relevant frameworks – drawing on the activities throughout the course.

• Starting point = original audit
• Reflections upon my own development (my blog)
• 3 safety issues, legislative frameworks and your personal/professional context (a compendium map)
• Supporting learning