CyberSaftey Lessons

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http://cybersmartcurriculum.org/safetysecurity/lessons/6-8/private_and_personal_information/

CyberSaftey

Digital Citizenship -Debating The Future

Grade 6-8

This lesson was very interesting because it was focused around the theme of social issues and the future of the internet. It allows the students to debate/discuss the future of the internet. It creates problem solving skills, promotes creativity and prompts the students to analyze social issues  facing students today!

CyberSaftey

Private and Personal Information Lesson.
Grade 7-9


This Lesson offers students an opportunity to look and navigate through other cyber sites. This lesson focuses on the safety and security factors that take place when actually trying to check out social sites that are designed for communication. The activity that is  presented offers an effective learning tool that provides the students with the opportunity to learn the right way to navigate and communicate on different sites while maintaining privacy.

Game Base Learning and Play

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think.
James Beattie (Scottish Academic and Writer, 1735 - 1803)

This is exactly why I feel GBL should be incorporate throughout our teaching experience or teaching style as educational leaders.
GBL uses competitive exercises, either pitting the students against each other or getting them to challenge themselves in order to motivate them to learn better.
Games often have a fantasy element that engages students in a learning activity through a storyline.
Teaching GBL has certain properties that are beneficial to not only the teacher but more importantly the student. Here are a few reseons why GBL is designed to be a positive learning vehicle to understanding the course content.

Motivates students to learn

Immerses them in the material so they learn more effectively

Encourages them to learn from their mistakes.

Google Docs
Powerpoint presentation
Grade Assessment

Shared Document Reflection

Google Docs offers a considerable advantage to those educators who apply it to thier classroom instruction. Imagine if multiple students could work on a project at differant locations. Moreover, if a teacher could work on a samilar document and pull it up at differant schools. This becomes very helpful, effective and time efficient inside and out of the classroom

Joe Bianchi

I am an inspiring teacher, whose focus is in adolescent social studies / special education. One of my core beliefs are to challenge students and then re-challenge them to the point of no return. I will try to accomplish this by introducing new methods of teaching and learning. If you teach out-side the box, I feel your strudents will think outside the box. Creativity is contagious but inorder to unleash it, we as educational leaders must explore it and ultimately discover it within each and every student. Imagine a classroom that the students do not want to leave or course material that is loooked forward to. By teaching from many differant views and angles, even thruough the students perspective a classroom becomes extremely productive, it "changes the ordinary into extrordinary"!

About Me

I am from Rochester, N.Y. I attended Aquinas Institute in early 1990's. Excelled in football, baseball and boxing. My parents shipped me off to Canisius College in Buffalo N.Y. to get away from the craziness in Rochester. Unfortunately is was complete insanity at Canisius. Lived with twelve football, baseball, basketball players and lets say I was on double secret probation for most of my college career. Left there with a BA in Sociology/Political Science, but couldn't tell you what the fourth President of the United States was. I then ended up selling cars for the next ten years, putting my 40k education to good use and making my parents very proud of me. I eventually moved to Niagara Falls to work at Seneca Niagara Casino as an executive host. Stayed there for about five years until I came to the conclusion that I was spending more money then I was making. Eventually, I decided to further my educational career, since I did so well the first time I decided to try it again the second. So here I am at Roberts Wesleyan College ready to endualge in a teaching career. I could be reached at joseph_bianchi@roberts.edu  for further discussion.