Sector
Post-primary
Sector
Post-primary
Course dates
30-09-24 to 23-05-25
Study time
1 hour
Target audience
Post-primary SPHE and TY teachers
Places
Unlimited
This course aims to support you in teaching online safety in your classroom by providing you with skills, confidence and resources. It will enable you to raise awareness of and prevent potentially harmful online behaviour by your students through your implementation of the SPHE curriculum at Junior Cycle, TY and Senior Cycle levels. The content of this course is in line with the revised SPHE curriculum.
You will use and adapt free Webwise resources that engage students on topics that are relevant to their lives and important to their wellbeing.
Webwise resources featured in this course deal with topics such as sharing inappropriate images, online harassment and developing more positive relationships with each other.
The course was developed by Oide Technology in Education in collaboration with our Webwise team.
At the end of this course, you should be able to:
The course content covers several key areas in online safety for students and how Webwise resources can be used to support them. The course includes a video example of a school’s use of these resources for Safer Internet Day and insights from an Oide SPHE curriculum expert. You will also have the opportunity to create a classroom activity to adapt an online safety resource for your school context, and time to reflect and share your experiences with other course participants.
A laptop, desktop pc or tablet* with the latest version of Chrome, Firefox or Safari installed. A good broadband internet connection is essential.
*Most tablet devices work well with our course software but some older devices may not be compatible. Please do not use a smartphone to complete the course.
While this course is free, the content includes examples of many apps and software titles for the purposes of illustration, some of which involve a cost.
NB: Participants need to access one third party application – without needing to login – as part of the course. Please be aware of this application’s terms of service and privacy policies, as follows:
This course maps to the Teaching & Learning (Domains 3 and 4) and the Leadership & Management (Domains 2 and 4) domains of the Digital Learning Framework.
For more information visit the DL planning website.
The course maps to the DigCompEdu Competency Framework for educators, in particular Area 3: Teaching and Learning and Area 6: Facilitating Learners’ Digital Competence.
For more information visit the DigCompEdu website.
A course certificate is provided upon completion of this course.
You may be able to consider this course for Croke Park hours, subject to school management approval, particularly in relation to up to ten ‘Croke Park’ hours that may be allowed for potential individual/small group use (Circular 0042/2016 Primary and Circular 045/2016 Post Primary).
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