eSmart Schools Newsletter – Term 2
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Welcome to Term 2, we hope you had a lovely term break and are excited to offer you the latest eSmart news, updates and features.
As you may have discovered by now, our eSmart website received a system upgrade in Term 1 with a streamlined look. Early feedback indicates improved user experience, including easier navigation overall.
As part of the upgrade, all schools were sent new login credentials in March. If you haven’t received this, please contact our eSmart Helpline on 1300 592 151 or email esmart@amf.org.au.
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Interested in face-to-face eSmart training?
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Our face-to-face sessions provide participants with a comprehensive introduction to eSmart – providing context, background and helpful advice – and helps your Committee plan for, and implement, eSmart in your school.
This training is available for up to two staff members to attend and this will support your school in progressing with your eSmart journey.
You can book one of our upcoming training sessions by logging in here and looking under the Training tab on the system tool.
Dates and locations
| 31 May |
Beaumaris |
| 17 June |
Bendigo |
| 18 June |
Mount Clear |
| 19 June |
Footscray |
| 20 June |
Bacchus March |
| 24 June |
Swan Hill |
| 24 June |
Shepparton |
| 15 July |
Preston |
| 17 July |
Watsonia |
| 18 July |
Carlton |
We look forward to seeing you at an Intro session soon.
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National eSmart Week – 1 to 7 September 2019
National eSmart Week will run from 1 to 7 September, alongside National Children’s Week. Register today.
National eSmart Week will run from 1 to 7 September, alongside National Children’s Week. Register here today.
This year, we’re presenting National eSmart Week as a platform for students to speak up against bullying in all its forms. We’re challenging eSmart Schools to amplify student voice using the Digital and Media Arts.
Encourage your students to create, communicate, challenge and express their ideas using image, sound and text.
Let’s make National eSmart Week 2019 an online incubator for cyber safety and positive use of technologies!
Share and send us students’ media artworks like this video created by Bomaderry High School (NSW) students for National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence:
Send your student’s media artwork to katie.costello@amf.org.au by 15 August 2019 or share via social media during National eSmart Week. #eSmartWeek #creativelyesmart.
RESOURCES, TIPS & ARTICLES
Visit our updated and refreshed Resource Library to access these latest resources and tools, helping you to address the framework:
Domain 2: Update Policies
Domain 5: Curriculum Documents
- The eSafety Commissioner recently launched a ‘Keep our Mob Safe Online’ campaign, with a range of resources designed to educate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and carers.
- The eSafety Office has also released a series of videos encouraging parents, carers, school community members to ‘Start the Chat’ about online safety, as part of a multilingual eSafety Parent and Carer campaign.
- This clip from Common Sense Media can help your students learn what is – and is not – cyber bullying and give then important tools they’ll need to combat the problem.
- Pertinent to Domain 1 of the eSmart framework, this article offers tips to improve the climate at school to enhance student achievement, success, and productivity, but also teach youth to be safe, smart, honest and responsible while using technology.
- Applicable to building eSmart curriculum in Domain 5, The Basics of Digital Citizenship: 27 Power Verbs to Guide Children Online outlines the fundamentals of Digital Citizenship and supplies ideas to assist students and teachers to apply high quality digital citizen habits.
- Relevant to Domain 6 of the eSmart framework is Parents’ Ultimate Guide to Instagram. Is Instagram safe? How does it work? And what’s a “finsta”? Share this valuable piece with your parent community.
- Apex Legends, the latest highly interactive Battle Royale game, has quickly grown in popularity. This Common Sense Media (US) Game Review described the in-game violence as ‘more realistic than Fortnite’. Helpful advice for parents/carers can be found here.
- In a time of increasing concern around students’ exposure to violent, harmful or offensive content, this helpful article by Generation Next provides some guidance for teachers and parents/carers on what to do if your teenager watches violent footage.
The following resources can support you with your schools’ eSmart journey.
- Applicable to Domains 4 & 6, here’s one of most useful tools for teachers and parents to explore regarding information and safety guides for the most popular social media sites and apps.
Bully Stoppers, by the Victorian Department of Education and Training, are holding an #ihaveyourback poster competition, to promote upstander behaviour. Victorian students from Foundation to Year 12 can enter. Entry details and T&Cs can be found here.
If you are a school outside Victoria, we encourage you to look for initiatives in your state or territory.
More than 250,000 eSmart Digital Licences have been purchased for students across Australia. If you haven’t already, bolster your eSmart curriculum today with DL. We offer:
- (New!) Junior Primary: F-2 students go on a fun, engaging animated adventure with Buddy Bear, learning the basics of using tech and what to look out for online.
- Primary: Level 3-6 students progress through online learning modules about devices, privacy, searching, sharing, gaming, social networking, risky behaviours and cyber bullying.
- Secondary: Level 7-10 students progress in-depth through similar learning modules of devices, privacy, searching, sharing, gaming, social networking, risky behaviours, cyber bullying, as well as relationships and reputations with relevant to teens.
We offer a range of workshops for students, teachers and parents to support your school's eSmart journey. The benefits include:
- For students: Developing critical reasoning skills around what is safe to share online
- For teachers: Keeping up to date with the latest trends and statistics
- For parents: Keeping informed and obtaining tips and strategies to help keep children safe online.
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