eTwinning Local Trainings

In our School we have carried out training on bureaucratic and technical aspects of the eTwinning Platform. This tool is a perfect complement to our Erasmus Project.

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Protecting Personal Information

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With Teacher Lucila in the class of 6º A we have worked a Good Practice proposed by our partners of Turkey.

This practice is called “Protecting Personal information” and pursues the following objectives:

• To keep personal information private on the net.
• To understand the risk of sharing personal information.
• To understand the consequences of sharing personal information.
• To learn out the ways of keeping private information.

Warm up activities were organized in small groups and pupils talked about the following issues:

Have you got a Social Media account? Which Social Medias do you use?

About 95% of pupils in the class have Social Media accounts. The most used are Instagram, WhatsApp, Tik Tok (It’s a recent application for mobile phones that you can use for making playbacks of your favourite singers or the music that your prefer) Hangouts… 

Do you share your real birthday date? Do you think that can cause a problem?

All the class told that they don’t share his/her real birthday date. We can check that their navigation in this issue is secure. According to them given this information can cause problems such as Identity theft, grooming, phishing…

After these reflections pupils worked in groups of five pupils. In each group a pupil assumed the leader role reading and writing the peers’ answers. This is the story we read:

Jack is a young man who has a Facebook account. When Jack has signed up, he has typed his real birthday which is 9th of September. And as soon as he joins Facebook, he accepts every friend request since it is considered a “cool thing” to have 500 or more friends.

Facebook sends alert to his friends when his birthday is coming closer. He receives many birthday wishes on his birthday on Facebook which enjoys him a lot.

One day, he loses his bank card. He looks for it everywhere and he can’t find it. He reaches out his bank to inform about his loss. When he checks out his bank account, he realizes his all money is gone. 

We make some reflections about this story. For this task teachers give pupils the following questions:

What happened to his money?

Pupils said that somebody had stolen Jack’s money and his money has disappeared.

Bank cards need a password. What could it be?

This question was very important because pupils understood the importance of a strong password. This should contain: capital letters, symbols, numbers…

Examples of weak password can be:

• 160379: This password corresponds to a birthday date.
• 89147: This password only contains numbers.
• Juan: It only contains lower and upper case letters.

A good example of strong password: JuAN_85.

Where is this information shared?

They indicated Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

What are Jack’s mistakes which lead him losing his money?

All the class recognized that the three main Jack’s mistakes were:

• Accepting friends’ invitations.
• Creating an account in an early age.
• Sharing his birthdate and putting it as his main password.

What do you suggest Jack to do?

• Don’t publish personal data in social networks.
• His account should be in private mode.
• Don’t publish all the moments of his life.

In conclusion Lucila’s pupils learnt that:

• We shouldn’t publish everything and we have to take care when we are a child.
• Some networks are connected itself.
• We shouldn’t create easy passwords.
• A long password doesn’t mean that it is secure.
• We should be in Social Networks when we are 14 years. If we need to be before we need parents’ permission.

Our final product was to design a slogan which may help other peers no to experience the same situation that Jack has had. This slogan was an interactive poster done with the web tool “The poster my wall”.

We share our presentation of the good practice in order to other schools and teacher can do it. Let us know what are your results and conclusions.

Protect your right to a private life

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The class of 6º B with teachers María Luisa and Juan Antonio has done the Romanian Good Practice. It is called "Protect your right to a private life" and pursues the following objectives:

• To identify the elements which represent personal data.
• To become aware of the dangers caused by the Internet.
• To apply rules of protecting personal data for safe Internet surfing.
• To shape a responsible attitude for internet users regarding to image and privacy for everyone involved.
• To create a safe and secure online environment at school.

Warm up activities consist of reading the tale "Whatsapps, videojuegos y cabezas mutantes" that we can find in this web. The whole class liked this reading very much and we recommend that it be read at home by all the members of pupils' families. After that we reflect about the following questions:

What issues could you find when you go online?

• We come across applications that ask us for personal data.
• Technology addictions
• Inappropriate contents.
• Risks: Identity theft, grooming, hyperconnection, etc.
• Virus (keylogger).
• Hacking; fraudulent, impulsive purchases; overspending...

How many of the situations relate to your personal experience?

• Loss of control of time when we are in front of electronic devices.
• Lack of attention to what is happening around us.
• Loss of social relations, coexistence...
• Responsible / irresponsible / excessive use of devices.

Are there any solutions to correct certain behaviours?

• Control of the time in the use of electronic devices: Schedule.
• Organize free time for activities where there are no electronic devices.

In the next activity we watched the following videos contained in YouTube.

While watching videos pupils decided a rule for staying safe online and made drawings as a final product. We share them below. Clic in the image or here.

Photos of pupils while they were watching the videos:

We share the presentation for teachers interest in doing with their pupils this good practice. If you put it into practice we would like to know your opinion and results. Thank you!

The party

Our 6º C students are doing our good practice called "The party". With this good practice we pursue as an objective "To think about the impact our decisions have on our privacy and the privacy of others".

As a warm up activity we propose the reading of the following case:

Carlos has been this weekend in his town parties with his group of friends, also with Andrés, who is a critic person. They had a lot of fun. On Saturday they had a party until dawn and returned home in quite bad conditions, only wishing to catch the bed to rest.

Reviewing Carlos’ mobile photos there are several very funny that he will upload to a known social network. Most of his friends are surprised to see the photos in his profile. Some students, including Andrés, are very upset and have asked Carlos to remove the photos from the social network. He says they're boring mates and they can't stand jokes.

After reading the case, the students reflected on the following questions:

What do you think Carlos should do?

The students responded that Carlos should:

• Remove photo.
• Ask permission before publishing.
• Pixel the faces of friends who do not want to appear.
• Apologize.
• Send photos privately.

Does Andres have reasons to be angry? Is it fair?

Everyone agreed that Andres had reason to be angry because:

• He doesn't like pictures or doesn't want to appear in them.
• Carlos did not ask his permission to upload the photo to the social network.
• He doesn't feel good in that photo.
• That photo could have repercussions on his future working life.
• That image jeopardizes his privacy, security, digital identity...
• He doesn't want moments of his privacy to be public.

How can one respect one’s own privacy of others while showing that they had fun?

The students provided many solutions. Among them:

• Pixel, eliminate, cut faces, use emojis...
• Ask before taking a picture.
• Share stories only with friends who appear in the photo.
• Share photos by safer means such as email.

In large group we divided the class into two groups: Those who support Carlos in his idea of keeping the photos on the social network and those who believe that he should attend to the requests of those who do not believe it.

Some pictures of the sessions:

Presenting the activity

Reading the case

Students reflect on their own

Sharing our ideas

Students in the debate:

Deciding our final product

Cybermentor Students preparing the radio program:

CM RADIO

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?

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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.

Christmas cards

During the month of December our students will congratulate their classmates through Christmas cards made by themselves. In this entry we will narrate the process and the final product obtained.
These photos correspond to the beginning of the activity carried out by 6º B.

 Tasks December 2019

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  Imagen de Jill Wellington en Pixabay 

  Tasks December - March 2020

  During this month we will carry out the following activities:

  Other events of the project:

  • P16: Christmas Cards on the eTwinning Platform.
  • P17: Teacher trainings on specific project topics:
  • Hungary: Fingerprint.
  • Italy: Risk prevention on social Networks.
  • Poland: Good use on electronic devices.
  • Romania: Identity theft.

  Good practices:
  

  • Unit 1: Privacy