Technology and us

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Technology and us has been the good Italian practice of the 5th grade students. This practice was intended to achieve the following objectives:

• To increase awareness among children and young people about avoiding risks and staying safe online.
• To understand how the Internet affects Kids and what are their inclinations towards technology.
• To find out how they can protect their privacy online.

Below we explain the development of the activity and the final product achieved.

Firstly, with the web application Mentimeter pupils entered the code and in groups tried to answer the following questions with a few words.

How to avoid a selfie without risks?

Image taken from Pixabay.

We obtained the following result:

Our students had quite a bit of previous knowledge on this subject.

Secondly, they watched a video of Pantallas Amigas on YouTube to see how much they knew about the subject.

Thirdly, pupils answered the questions in a questionnaire entitled "Maybe / Maybe not". This was adapted from an existing one in the Digital Natives Forum Programme of the Regional Government of Extremadura. As explained in the questionnaire, there were groups of 4 - 6 students where decisions were made by consensus. On a scale of 1 to 4 they had to indicate the degree of danger of a given situation. Next we shared the questionnaire:

This was followed by an analysis of the results obtained and the following conclusions were drawn:

• Download official updates.
• Visit web pages with the "s" in http:...
• Use different passwords for each of the services we use.
• Close the sessions of the web services we use.
• If we find an open session we will close it immediately.
• Ask permission before posting a photo.
• Be careful with the "personal data" we provide to the applications we download.
• Beware of the devices we share.
• Cover the webcam with a sticker.
• Avoid connecting to public wifi networks.

As a final product, the students made a collaborative poster in which they inserted the previous conclusions or advice. This is the result:

If you want to implement this good practice in your classroom, you can use and/or adapt the following presentation.