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Learning continuity contingency planning: early childhood
When planning for children's learning continuity in the event of closure, early childhood education and care services may consider:
identifying ways early childhood teachers and educators can initiate group or individual contact with children to maintain learning opportunities
implementing activities with children by using available technologies
maintaining contact with families to discuss and track the wellbeing of children and discuss the progress of children's development
identifying ways educators can improve the implementation and documentation of the service's program and maintain educator practice.
There are resources services can provide to support parents and carers to engage in learning activities with their children at home:
Play-based learning for pre-schoolers - provides suggestions for good structured and unstructured play experiences for 3 - 5 year olds
How to build literacy skills from birth to year 2 - includes tips on how to help build children's skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing
How to build numeracy skills from birth to year 2 - includes tips on how to build children's skills in maths, measurement and patterns
Building STEM skills for children - includes ways to engage children with STEM related experiences.
Raising Children Network also has a range of learning activities for pre-schoolers. It includes tips and ideas as well as videos of drawing, writing, storytelling, counting and other activities that can be done at home.
Services may also want to give parents information about talking to their children about COVID-19. For example: UNICEF's How to talk to
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"Edutopia's collection of articles, videos, and other resources on internet safety, cyberbullying, digital responsibility, and media and digital literacy.
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A useful video developed for students at Sibley High School. College. Administrators and employers comment on how student representation in social media (digital footprint) influences college admission practices and hiring decisions.
A couple of Chrome extensions explained here that that Richard Byrne uses when he finds himself falling into social media vortex and not being as productive as he should be. These extensions are equally useful to students as they are to adults.
"The idea behind the shift? A kind of empathy-moving beyond see one's self, and moving towards seeing one's self in the physical and digital company of others. As digital technology and social media become more deeply embedded in our lives, and more nuanced in their function, this is a shift whose time has come."
A short video that address the issue of your onine persona "Published on 7 Aug 2014. Think before you post! This unit teaches students about digital citizenship. We offer the top ten to think about before you post to social media platforms. See the full lyrics and lesson plan at http://www.flocabulary.com/oversharing/"
"Managing your digital identity is a skill that everyone needs to learn and educators should be teaching their students about. In a digitally focused world students may not understand the implications of what is shared via social media. Teachers need to be fully aware and proactive and start teaching students about the effects of their on-line activity and how to manage their own digital footprints."
"This guide will give you insights into how educators around the world are approaching school closures.
Thousands of teachers worldwide are currently sharing snippets of their experiences via social media or their blogs. We've compiled, curated, and built on some common themes and ideas to create this extensive guide."
A post that discusses some resources that will help you teach your students to find accurate information, manage their social media feeds and make good choices about what to share
"Users of the popular social media app TikTok have been using the hashtag #BookTok to share their book recommendations, especially in young adult literature. The videos are short clips and often use comparisons, genres, or feelings to appeal to users. Publishers began to notice that TikTok was actually driving sales and decided to jump on the bandwagon, as well.
So how can BookToks help you? This post has three ways you can use them with students:"
"Depending on your point of view, content on the internet can be a vast collection of treasures or a big pile of gold specks mixed in with an even bigger pile of dirt. This has given rise to content curation, the process of finding the gold among the dirt, as a very popular online activity.
At its most basic, content curation is the process of finding, organizing, and presenting content from the flood of information and media that inundate the web by the second. Similar to museum curators, content curators sift through a seemingly never-ending amount of digital objects to unearth individual items worthy of being showcased for a specific audience."