1. Digital Safety Night
General Session
March 21, 2017

2. Tonight’s Objectives:
Schedule
6:30-7: General Session (Gym)
7:05-7: Breakout Session #1
7:35- 8: Breakout Session #2
Insights about technology use (devices) in LUSD
Specific information about internet safety & digital literacy in LUSD
Specific information that will allow families to better support learning at home with technology
Ideas and information to help parents mentor children in the digital age
Breakout Session
Presenters
Grade Level
Room
Digital Safety at Home
Grades K-5
Cinnamon Johnsrud
K-5
Rm 15
Grades 6-8
Officer Honeycutt
6-8
Rm 22
Learning with Technology
Bevin Graham
&
Emily Dallosta
Rm 14
Kate Langstrom &
Becky Connolly
Rm 21
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3. Intentional Instruction
Technology in LUSD
Robust Networks
Teacher Training
Devices
Instruction
Intentional Instruction
Where are we now?
Where have we been?
Been:
Teacher:
Teacher Knowledge Tiered Levels of Teacher Placement
Sac Bee Article from 2007
Students:
Computer Labs - limited use- seen as a separate event and not a natural tool for learning
Now:
Intentional Approach to Technology Roll out
Teacher
Training Comes first before any device is distributed
Addressing the needs to the ambitious through digi classroom grants
Opportunites for learning in after school PD
Google Summit
Google Certificatin
Students
Much like teachers need training, ss need digi citizenship
Chromebooks in 2-8 beginning in 2014
iPads in k-1
Chromebooks- 1,129
iPads- over 100
Digital Classrooms over 30 applicants last year
Future:
Improve, refine instructional practices through technology
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4. Technology in the Classrooms
Chromebooks in Grades 2-8
iPads
Grades K-1
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5. Loomis Union School District

6. Technology What’s Our Why?
Improve Communication
Meet the Needs of Various Learning Styles
Increase Student Engagement
Technology
Provide Feedback
Access to Support & Learning Resources
Increase Access to Information
Promote Independence
Opportunities for Student Centered Learning
Support Student Collaboration
Flexibility to Differentiate Learning
What’s Our Why?
Schools must prepare students for jobs that do not yet exist, creating ideas and solutions for products and problems that have not yet been identified, using technologies that have not yet been invented.”
-Linda Darling Hammond, Stanford University
Communication
Instant access to information
Student engagement
Collaboration
receiving feedback.
Promostes independence
provides multimedia to address all learning styles
►provides interactive, student centered activities
►provides extra support and help resources
flexibility and adaptability to Differentiate learning
Virtual labs, trips
Discuss the good -collaboration, 21st century skills, possibly this video-
Examples of student projects ---
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7. Our Guiding Question
As our schools continue to innovate teacher practice and provide students with devices, how do we ensure students are thinking critically, behaving safely and participating responsibly in our digital world?
Key Findings from Plugged in Parents and Teens and Tweens
Common Sense Media Research Links
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8. How many hours per day does the average American child between 8-12 spend with media and technology?
Source: Common Sense Census, 2015
Our nation’s challenge and opportunity
Children spend more time with digital media & devices than any other activity in their lives.
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9. How many hours per day does the average American adult in the U. S
How many hours per day does the average American adult in the U.S. spend with media and technology?
3 hours
5 hours
7 hours
9 hours
Source: Common Sense Media Plugged in Parents
1.5 Hours on average for work.
80% parents report that they think they are good role models for technology use.
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10. Student Survey
Grades 5-8
What do you wish your school and/or teachers knew about life online for students?
I wish that teachers could understand how mean people can be to each other online over social media.
Teachers try to teach people about online bullying and stuff like that but what I wish they understood is that it's not that easy taking to someone about something that is happening to you...
Because all of our teachers didn't have social media when they were kids, they don't know how it feels to really be bullied online when you’re a kid. Most of the teachers try to understand and they tell you what to do online, but they don't really know how it feels to be put in a bad situation.
Sometimes situations are hard to explain to teachers, like if something weird happened online and you think about it during the day, and you can't focus. That sometimes happens to me, I try to focus more.
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Sometimes situations are hard to explain to teachers, like if something weird happened online and you think about it during the day, and you can't focus. That sometimes happens to me, I try to focus more.
Teachers try to teach people about online bullying and stuff like that but what I wish they understood is that it's not that easy taking to someone about something that is happening to you...
Because all of our teachers didn't have social media when they were kids, they don't know how it feels to really be bullied online when you’re a kid. Most of the teachers try to understand and they tell you what to do online, but they don't really know how it feels to be put in a bad situation.

11. LUSD Commitment
We are committed to bringing technology into the kids’ hands, but we are equally, if not more, committed to teaching kids how to use it responsibly.
What is our responsibility around safety when students use district issued technology?
Ensure safeguards are in place to filter content
Provide a framework for staff members to use a resource for digi cit training to widen the responsibility to keep kids safe
With so many opportunities and perils using technology, there are two levels of safety schools and households should consider.
The technology itself can filter and identify the needs and support of the users by filtering inappropriate content, and providing services for help & support.
There must be a foundation of digital citizenship to reinforce the decision making and behavior of students using the technology.
How do we ensure students are thinking critically, behaving safely and participating responsibly in our digital world?
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12. Digital Citizenship Loomis Union School District
Lessons cover the 8 themes
The lessons “spiral” - some are taught two or three years in a row
Several lessons are required prior to student use of devices
Examples of Lessons from Students
Identifying risky situations
Thinking before self-revealing
Protecting privacy
Cultivating a positive digital footprint
Communicating respectfully
Building community
Searching effectively
Evaluating website credibility
Respecting copyright and avoiding plagiarism
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13. My Digital Life is Like... A circus because it’s very entertaining.
Disneyland because it is a whole wonderful, interesting new world.
Chocolate-I love it but it’s not always good for me.
An ex girlfriend- no matter how hard I try, I can’t get away from it.
A Tyrannosaurus Rex- it’s big, powerful, and it can destroy you.
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14. Student Survey
Grades 5-8
I wish that they would understand that the internet is not just this huge thing only used as a distraction from life or a huge waste of time. They need to understand that our technological advances have a huge impact on our community. On our lives. They provide answers on things that we may never had known before. It helps us connect with our relatives from distant lands. And, most of all, it helps us work as a team.
I wish they knew how much it has helped me with my grades and it has helped me become a better student.
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15. Resource Site: http://www.loomis-usd.k12.ca.us/
What rules and guidelines are in place at home?
How do you model the use of technology at home?
How often do you engage in conversations about technology with your child? How do you start these conversations?
What purpose does technology serve in your home?
Do you distinguish between mentoring and monitoring? How do you mentor your child’s online activity? How much should you monitor?
Resource Site:
Technology at Home
Questions to Consider
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16. Thank You