Digital Learning

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Hi WPS Families,

As you know, there can be a wide range of benefits and hurdles when our kids are accessing things online. Luckily for us, we have access to a broad range of online resources that can help guide, not only our students/children but ourselves as parents/educators. Typically, these resources have been aimed at students who are in Grade 3 and above.

While students in upper primary school and beyond are likely more proficient at navigating the online world safely than younger children, it’s important to build children's digital literacy early to set them on a path to safe and appropriate internet use.

Playing IT Safe is a play based, early learning initiative that has been developed in partnership by the Australian Federal Police, the Alannah & Madeline Foundation and the eSafety Commissioner.

While this initiative is targeted towards pre-school aged children and below, it can effectively be used with students in Foundation and Year 1 to further enhance their online safety education.

The content in Playing IT Safe has been divided into two categories: activities and resources for Educators and activities and resources for parents and carers.

The play-based activities in Playing IT Safe use a mix of online and offline tools and equipment to explore digital technology and online safety.

To discover the Playing IT Safe initiative and its Educator and Parent/Carer activities and resources, please click here – Playing IT Safe. Parents are encouraged to view tis resource to helkp open up positive conversations around being safe online.

The Playing IT Safe resource will be used to support the continued development of the P – 2 eSafety online lessons. 

Regards,

Steven Puhar

Leading Teacher - Curriculum Leader

Apps List 2024

Digital Statement

Williamstown Primary School acknowledges the recent Human Rights Watch report on Edutech in privacy violations and findings. 

Williamstown Primary works closely with the DET’s Digital Learning and privacy teams to ensure that all DET guidelines regarding the implementation of digital devices are followed.

Attached is the school’s digital statement outlining the online platforms and their privacy policies that the school uses on a day-to-day basis. 

As part of the school’s ongoing student education, the school will further enhance key understandings around user privacy, as well as the tools available on selected devices.

This will be embedded within the current school’s eSafety program that currently sees students undertake numerous digital workshops run by both school leadership, classroom teachers and external providers such as the Alannah and Madeline Foundation’s eSmart organisation.

Parents are advised of a key iPad feature to turn tracking off. This feature will be explicitly demonstrated to students within the school-based workshops.

Go to Settings > Privacy > Tracking.

The list shows the apps that requested permission to track you. You can turn permission on or off for any app on the list.

To stop all apps from asking permission to track you, turn off Allow Apps to Request to Track (at the top of the screen).

Williamstown Primary Digital Information

Below is a link to the schools Digital Learning page. This page contains key information about the school's implementation of the digital technology curriculum as a tool within a blended learning environment.

Further GoogleSuite for Education Information 

Please find attached documents released by DET.

The first document gives a deeper understanding of the DET licences G Suite for Education, how it is set up and how it differs from the public Google platform.

The second document provides families with supporting resources on how to protect individuals privacy online.

The Department of Education information pack for parents is available from the following link:

https://www.williamstownps.vic.edu.au/source/Build/2020-GoogleSuite-Parent-Information.pdf