Budapest May 30, 2012

Learning and Awareness

The Portuguese Challenges

INSAFE Resource Cluster meeting

SeguraNet Challenges

• Strategic activities developed in the Seguranet project

• Target to Schools

Challenges design principles

– Reach the teachers in order to reach the students.

– Teacher can give access to their students to the challenges (minimum effort)

– Teacher may have access before the students to the challenge (classroom preparation)

– Teacher makes the work he/she can

Objectives

• Learning in Context (schools)

• Learning by doing

• Discussion and debate in the classroom by the mediation of the teacher

• Promote the critical thinking in the students

• Educate with the Web and to the Web

Example Rules Challanges

• Learning in Context (schools)

• Learning by doing

• Discussion and debate in the classroom by the mediation of the teacher

• Promote the critical thinking in the students

• Educate with the Web and to the Web

Context – Group Targets

• Public and Private Schools

– Primary Schools [6-10 year old]

– Lower & upper Secondary Schools [11- 18 year old]

• Parents

Goals

• To promote the critical sense in the students

– Learn with the error

– Not only awareness but learning using school resources

Challenges – primary schools

• The themes for parents are organized according to the students themes

• Promote school <-> home relations, reflection and interaction in families

Challenges – Secondary Schools

– Each month the teams have an evaluation/assesment

– Knowledge Building

– Results based on performance indicators( answered

correctly)

Parents - organization

• Codes organized by school Parents association

• Organized in Teams

• By School/Head teacher (in case school parents association doesn’t exist)

Challenges- Registration

Primary Teacher makes the registration of the

classroom

Secondary Schools

Secondary Schools (upper, lower levels)

School institutional

Code

Teachers Code

Parents Code

Parents Team

Student Registration

One Classroom

• Organized by classroom teams

– Each group has its leader – captain

– Each classroom group has a different punctuation depending on the answers

Challenges - Incentives

• Prizes

• Participation forms

• Events/Resources publication in The SeguraNet Site

Support Services

• Specific Platform

– Authorizations and registration

– Authoring Tool – challenges creation

– Challenges Management

• By School Year

Periodicity

• During the 1st , 2nd, 3rd School period

• In the Classroom during any discipline

• One teacher and several teams

Organizing challenges Classroom p

• Teacher register it’s team’s

• Each team is constituted between 3 students to one classroom

• Each classroom has a maximum of 5 teams

Example – Primary Schools • http://agrup-frazao-seguranet.blogspot.pt/

Primary School example

http://patatipatatan.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/seguranet/

Number of teacher, students, parents

Challenges Numbers

• Primary School

• 2009/2010 • Teachers 86

• Students - 1265

• Parents 275

• 2010/2011 • Teachers - 247

• Students - 6427

Dates Criteria

The challenges dates are choose according to several criteria

• Not in the beginning of each school year

• Not too much near the end of the formal assessment dates

Challenges Periodicity

• For primary school – One by each school period – Total 3 by each school year

• For Secondary School – One by two month? – Total of 7/8 by each school year

• For parents – One by two months – Total of 3 By each school year

Challenge Activities Secondary Schools • Respond to Digital learning resources (including parents teams) Primary Schools • Creation of Video

• Creation of Illustrations and works under

Challenges design

• Based on Digital Learning resources (DLR) quality criteria

• Pattern design methodology for each DLR

• Multimedia Learning (Mayer)

• Challenging questions, with increasing difficulty

• One or two e-Safety topics by each Challenge

Quality multimedia

• Quality assets that have peer or professionally review.

• Specific terms not found in Portuguese are made by the MoE Seguranet team and integrated in the glossary.

• Creation of specific web page to support the answer to the questions, when necessary.

Challenge Results

• How to find the Challenge SeguraNet winner

– Using a set off criteria – Rules for each challenge

– Percentage obtained in the Quiz

– Creativity

– Relevance for the theme

Statistics (secondary schools) 2010/2011

• Number of students registered - 33509

• Number of Teachers – 1857

• Number of parents teams - 1051

• Number of schools - 291

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Number Schools

Primary Schools

• Three Challenges a Year

Presented By Teacher

Individual and Team Working

(Teacher mediation)

Work is digitized and sent to

SeguraNet Platform

Secondary Schools

• Between 7 and 8) Challenges a Year

Presented By Teacher

Team Working (Eventual Teacher

mediation)

Questions are answered trough

SeguraNet Platform

Design Resource – Introduction and ativitie context

Design Resource – introduction to

concepts

Design Resource

• Using positive

• messages and comics

• Feedback and

providing official and

reference sites

Thank You

fernando.campos@dge.mec.pt