Polytechnic and design, Vol. 4 No. 4, 2016.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.19279/TVZ.PD.2016-4-4-07
EMPOWERING STUDENTS FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION WITH HELP OF MULTIMEDIA LEARNING RESOURCES
Lidija Kralj
; University College Algebra, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In order to answer the needs for empowering students, teachers and parents in the area of e-safety, NGO “Suradnici u učenju” helped five primary schools in European Union-funded project “ Children’s safety on the Internet “ developing new school curriculum area for children’s safety on the Internet for students aged 7 -14, their parents, teachers and local community. Curriculum consist of pedagogical-didactical model, acceptable use policies, multimedia resources, textbooks and guides. The project aims were improving students’ digital competences and encourage children to assume responsibility for their own safety with a focus on empowerment, emphasizing responsible behaviour and digital citizenship and to raise e-safety awareness. In this paper we discuss the content and evaluation of school curriculum developed in that project. The curriculum was tested with students aged 7 to 14, their parents and teachers. Results show that the curriculum and learning resources fully satisfied students’ expectations and that the team of authors successfully implemented modern strategies in the curriculum and resources creation. That school curriculum is now used as base for new national curriculum of subject Informatics and cross-curricular topic Use of ICT. Resources created for school curriculum are freely available for further use on project web site http://petzanet.hr
Keywords
e-safety; electronic violence prevention; school curriculum; digital skills; children’s safety online
Hrčak ID:
174833
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Publication date:
29.12.2016.
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