Digital Learning
Resources to support families and students to be safe and responsible digital citizens
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Hi everyone,
This week, we received the results from our eSmart Schools Self Assessment. The results compare our school to many schools across Australia, and pleasingly, we are leading the way in many areas of the survey. As always, as a school, we will be looking at ways to refine and improve our teaching and learning practices. To help support this, both Mat and I will be meeting our local eSmart Advisor to help support and further understand our results and to use them to drive best practices within our school.
Please see below a snapshot of our school’s results.
As you can see, the results above are something we are proud of as a school. We look forward to sharing the outcomes from our meeting with our eSafety Advisor later in the year.
Our Digital Learning eSafety Lessons go a long way toward achieving our results. This week, two of our Grade 3 classes started their termly lessons. In our next newsletter, we will share some online eSafety tips the students discussed in class.
Finally, to help ensure our digital learning program supports the teaching and learning for our students, can we please remind students in Grades 3-6 who utilise a personal iPad at school to bring their iPad each day fully charged? Having all the apps from the apps list is also important as it allows students to complete the set tasks required of them by their teacher.
Have a great week,
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.
JB HiFi Digital Purchase Portal 2024
The JB HiFi purchase portal is again available for Willy PS families. The schools recommended minimum specification device is the iPad Gen 9, but the portal does also offer a range of iPad models and accessories. Although students have access to bluetooth keyboards we also recommend the Smart Keyboard or a 3rd party keyboard incorporated within the cover. This accessory will add value to the users experience.
Please also note the change in School Code.
Although the portal is set up through JB HI-FI on behalf of the school, we encourage families to explore all purchase options.
School Code: WilliamstownPS2024
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