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Sunday, 9 June 2013

Digital Multimedia Platform with Educational Games

Here are some links of games to play. You will learn something about cyberbullying and safety on the internet and computer.

General websites about  Internet Safety and Cyberbullying
http://www.esafetykit.net/index2.html

A website with safe games to play at home:
http://www.safekidgames.com/

Safe searcher:  www.kidrex.org
Educational blog: es.tiching.com

                                                          INTERNET SAFETY


4th graders: 9 or 10 years old
1. Matching game – Computer parts: Match the picture to the correct word.
2. Internet Tag Cloud: Match the words with the common meaning of safe use of the Internet.
3. Look at the logos of safe use of the Internet.
4. Draw/Make a logo or a poster with a slogan.
5. A didactic game:
Key challenge: Find the correct order of keys of the keyboard:
or play as a computer game: http://www.abcya.com/keyboard.htm
OR
Word Search Puzzle Computer Parts: http://bestcoloringpages.com/word-search-puzzle-computer-parts_2d363.html
6. STUDENT FEEDBACK:
Did you like these activities?
What have you learned today?
Do you think that learning about computers and the Internet is important?
What do you have to be careful when you are using the computer and the Internet?


5th graders: 10 or 11 years old
1. Matching game – Computer parts: Match the picture to the correct word.
2. Read the cartoon and connect the meaning with the safe use of the Internet.
3. Look at the logos of safe use of the Internet.
Define the rules and the word SMART.
5. Draw/Make a logo or a poster with a slogan.
6. A didactic game:
Key challenge: Find the correct order of keys of the keyboard:
or play as a computer game: http://www.abcya.com/keyboard.htm
OR
4. STUDENT FEEDBACK:
Did you like these activities?
What have you learned today?
What are the most important rules that you have learned today for you?
Will you use these rules when you are on the Internet?

6th graders (11 or 12) and 7th graders (12 or 13)
1. Computer parts  
6th graders: Matching game: Match the pictures with words (using the attached worksheet – computer parts).
7th graders: Computer vocabulary crossword exercise. Read the clues and guess the device.
(or easy version: Computer accessories word search)
2. Worksheet Let's talk about the Internet: Work in pairs and answer the questions (using the attached worksheet).
Define the rules and the word SMART.
5.  Complete the matching exercises on the worksheet Let's talk about the Internet.
6. STUDENT FEEDBACK:
Did you like these activities?
What have you learned today?
What are the most important rules that you have learned today for you?
Will you use these rules when you are on the Internet?

8th graders (13 or 14) and 9th graders (14 or 15)
1. Complete the worksheet CAN YOU TRUST THE INTERNET? (using the attached worksheet).
a) Read the text and answer the questions.
b) Vocabulary exercise – Complete the word find and matching game.
2. STUDENT FEEDBACK: Did you like these activities?
What have you learned today?
What are the most important rules that you have learned today for you?
Will you use these rules when you are on the Internet?

3. Logic Game - Internet worksheet: time spend on the Internet and visits of internet sites (using the attached worksheet).
OR/AND
3. Make a banner about the safe use of the Internet.
OR/AND
3. Internet Vocabulary Quiz worksheet: Match the words with their meanings using the attached worksheet).
COMPUTER CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

8th graders (13 or 14) and 9th graders (14 or 15)
1. Watch the video What Should you Accept? (They think about the presented safety rule on the Internet):
2. Connect the computer parts to power and learn some rules how to use the Internet in a safe way:
Instruction: Remember some of the rules, because you will have to write the rules down in the questionnaire.
3. Read about the things that you can do on the Internet and check the rules that keep yourself safe when you are using the Internet (define the word SMART) and answer the questionnaire:
4. STUDENT FEEDBACK (answer the questionnaire on the school’s website):
Did you like these activities?
What have you learned today?
What are the most important rules that you have learned today for you?
Will you use these rules when you are on the Internet?

8th graders (13 or 14) and 9th graders (14 or 15)
1. Read the photo story Keeping Personal Info Private:

2. Answer the questions to Take the Poll about internet safety and keeping your personal information on the Internet private: (click or link)

3. Read how you can stay safe online. Click YOUR COMPUTER SECURITY on the website:

4. STUDENT FEEDBACK (answer the questionnaire on the school’s website):
Did you like these activities?
What have you learned today?
What are the most important rules that you have learned today for you?
Will you use these rules when you are on the Internet?

CYBERBULLYING


6th graders (11 or 12) and 7th graders (12 or 13)
1. What is cyberbullying?  

4: Easy level: Make a poster with a slogan about cyberbullying.
Intermediate level: Write some rules that will help you to protect yourself against cyberbullying.
Advanced level: Write a short essay on cyberbullying
Possible topics: experience – awareness about cyberbullying – helping others – how to prevent

5. Decode the words associated with cyberbullying:

OR (easy exercise):
Find words associated with cyberbullying:

6. STUDENT FEEDBACK:
Last time, you had learned about internet safety. Do you use any tips when you are on the Internet?
Did you like these activities?
What have you learned today?
What are the most important rules that you have learned today for you?
Will you use these rules when you are on the Internet?

8th graders (13 or 14) and 9th graders (14 or 15)
1. Complete the crossword puzzle and find the meaning of some words associated with cyberbullying

OR read a story about Sara (http://www.bamaed.ua.edu/edtechcases/case5.html) and answer the questions together below.

2. Discussion about the first task:
(you can also use as a starting point for discussion: Cyberbullying tag cloud (http://blogs.neisd.net/achand4/files/2012/11/cyberbullying-tagxedo-11v63xa.jpg)

What are the most important tips to prevent cyberbullying ?
Which tips will you use while using the computer and the Internet?

3. Easy level: Make a poster with a slogan about cyberbullying.
Intermediate level: Write some rules that will help you to protect yourself against cyberbullying.
Advanced level: Write a short essay on cyberbullying
Possible topics: experience – awareness about cyberbullying – helping others – how to prevent

4. Complete the crossword to find some new ways how to behave on the Internet:

5. STUDENT FEEDBACK:
Last time, you had learned about internet safety. Do you use any tips when you are on the Internet?
What have you learned today?
Did you like these activities?
Will you use these rules when you are on the Internet?

COMPUTER CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

6th graders (11 or 12) and 7th graders (12 or 13)
1. Watch the video and find out how to use data on the Internet:

2. Play the game:
Privacy PiratesThis tutorial introduces children, ages 7-9, to the concept of online privacy and teaches them to distinguish between information that is appropriate to give out and information better kept private – and to recognize how this may change in different contexts.

3. Complete the quiz:

4. STUDENT FEEDBACK (answer the questionnaire on the school’s website):
Last time, you had learned about internet safety. Do you use any tips when you are on the Internet?
Did you like these activities?
What have you learned today?
What are the most important rules that you have learned today for you?
Will you use these rules when you are on the Internet?

8th graders (13 or 14) and 9th graders (14 or 15)
1. Watch the video and read about the meaning of cyberbullying:

2. Play the game and decide what you will do in a particular situation:
The cyberbullying interactive is a resource that enables teachers to follow on from the cyberbullying DVD 'Lets Fight It Together', and personalize and reinforce the learning from that film. Using the technology that children are using, the cyberbullying interactive allows children to log on to a computer and create their own character that goes into the same school where cyberbullying has taken place. Pupils have the opportunity to experience a day at school with the main character, Joe, and make decisions about how to help someone who is being cyberbullied. In the course of this they will find out how responsible a digital citizen they are and they will also find out more about keeping safe online.

3. Play the game Can you spot a bully?

4. STUDENT FEEDBACK (answer the questionnaire on the school’s website):
Last time, you had learned about internet safety. Do you use any tips when you are on the Internet?
Did you like these activities?
What have you learned today?
What are the most important rules that you have learned today for you?
Will you use these rules when you are on the Internet?




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