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Online Safety Course Certificate

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Online Safety Course Key Objectives: • To understand the challenges, risks and benefits for young people when using the internet and online technologies. • To understand the importance of maintaining a positive online reputation and some strategies for managing this effectively. • To raise awareness of, and signpost to, resources for teaching online safety in schools. • To raise awareness of the Better Internet for Kids strategy and Insafe network, as part of the network of Safer Internet Centres (SICs) in Europe, and associated resources #onlinesafetyMOOC

My lesson plan

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My lesson plan name is "Photos. To publish or not to publish". The lesson plan created with the use of the tool Learning Designer   http://learningdesigner.org Use the following shortened URL to review my lesson plan   https://v.gd/ntRACy "Photos. To publish or not to publish" Topic - The net effect and online reputation. Lesson aims and objectives:  Be aware of online relationships and sexting.  Understanding the self-expression with profile pictures.  Be sensible with general online safety issues. On this lesson students Brainstorm what they know about the threats on the Internet. We will be talking about sharing our personal information on social networks and youth desire to publish the pictures in social network. Students will vote on a poll and we will discuss how to express oneself using profile pictures. After watching  the video and they will play a game "My profile picture and me", discuss the same questions and will crea...

Module 5: Hate Speech and Radicalisation

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In this final module, you will look into two “hot” online safety topics which have caused a great deal of concern and debate in recent years: online hate speech and radicalisation. More specifically, you will learn what online hate speech and radicalisation is and hear more about educational approaches to promote critical thinking and mutual respect. Moreover, you will explore some campaigning strategies which have emerged in the fight against online hate speech and radicalisation, while reflecting on the role of other stakeholders such as social media companies like Facebook and YouTube but also law enforcement. 5.1 What is online hate speech? “The internet has become an important vehicle for promoting racism and intolerance.” ECRI annual report , 2015 The Council of Europe defines hate speech as covering“all forms of expression which spread, incite, promote or justify racial hatred, xenophobia, anti-Semitism or other forms of hatred based on intolerance, including: int...

Reviews of plans

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Use the following shortened URL to review my lesson plan   https://v.gd/ntRACy The lesson plan created with the use of the tool Learning Designer   http://learningdesigner.org g The reviews of the course peers for my lesson plan Review made By José María Díaz Fuentes date 15-05-2017  Dear Jolanta, Thank you for share your plan. I think it is well thought out and is very very complete and that your students will draw good final conclusions. Your lesson plan is well balanced, rich and complete! I like all resource you use! - and the mentimeter at first is genial Congrats! José María Review made By Lucia Vagnoni date 16-05-2017  Dear Jolanta, your lesson plan explicitly addresses online safety topics such as online relationships. It is well aligned with its learning outcomes and includes a good mix between inquiry, scaffolding for learning and hands-on tasks where appropriate. Congrats!! Review colleagues lesson plans Review...

Activities

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Many events and a lot of advice for children and parents about Safer Internet you can find on the Lithuanian website  www.draugiskasinternetas.lt Padlet 1.5. Campaign for a safer and better internet! Email from Course Team Dear Jolanta Leonavičienė, After an exciting first week of the “ Online Safety MOOC ”, we are now opening Module 2 of the course. So, what should you expect this week?  [...]  However, we would like to share with you  a few examples we have come across and which we felt offered good examples or useful resources  for everybody else: If you haven't yet started your Learning Diary yet these can be done using a range of different tools and platforms. You can see some of the work in progress by looking in  the forum .  Jolanta Leonavičienė has decided to use Sway and you can see her diary  here . I am so happy! Quiz #1 Module 2. Media Literacy  My lesson plan Category : Cr...

My badges

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Online Safety Course Badge Completed 26/05/2017 How do I get it? The recipient of this badge has completed successfully all modules of the Onlise Safety course on the European Schoolnet Academy. The recipient has passed all quizzes on the topics of the modules, written a lesson plan incorporating ideas from the course, engaged with peers in discussions about the module questions as well as reviewed the work of 3 other course participants. Description The course explores online Safety in a school context. The objectives of the course are, participants to understand the challenges, risks and benefits for young people when using the internet and online technologies. To understand the importance of maintaining a positive online reputation and some strategies for managing this effectively. To raise awareness of, and signpost to, resources for teaching online safety in schools as well as to raise awareness of the Better Internet for Kids strategy and Insafe network, as part of the net...

About me

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Hello everyone! My name is Jolanta & I live in Kaunas, Lithuania. I have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master's Degree in Information Technology Education. I'm  information and communication technologies teacher in Kaunas "Vyturys" gymnasium more than 20 years. My students are between 11-19 years old. Studens always using computers or tablets during my lessons. I have my own computer lab with 15 PC, internet  access, WiFi and multimedia projector. Through ICT lessons my pupils learn code, typing and other computer skills, Internet etiquette, personal data security, copyright protection issues and etc. Sometimes my students created online quizes and websites. Besides teaching, I conduct workshops and trainings to teachers how to use computer's technology and distance learning environment in classroom. Sometimes I participate in the online courses of the European Schoolnet Academy.  I like to travel with my class students, to ...