Being Webwise
Whether you are a primary or post primary teacher both you and your students are using the Internet. Our students are growing up digital and we as teachers need to equip them not only with the skills and means to be digitally literate but also the life skills to address the issues of personal safety, social responsibility and ethical behaviour online. This presentation, held jointly with Sharon McGrath SPHE National Coordinator, will offer an array of awareness materials, activities, tools and instruction resources for the classroom teacher.
Gráinne Walsh, NCTE/Webwise.ie developed the NCTE’s Internet Safety course for primary and post primary teachers ‘Integrating Internet Safety into teaching and learning’, which is offered as part of the NCTE’s Teaching Skills Initiative continuing ICT professional development programme.
Sharon McGrath is the National Coordinator of Social Personal Health Education Support Service and a Guidance Counsellor formerly of Castleknock Community College. One of the key modules in the SPHE programme for Junior Cycle is Personal Safety into which the issue of Internet Safety fits very well.