Coaches should help coachees stay safe digitally and consider their digital footprint and what information they share in profiles and how they interact online.
ISTE describes how ‘Coaches should create a working environment based on shared learning, teaching goals and distributed leadership that involves transparent decision making, willingness to accept feedback from peers and subordinates, collaboration on establishing policies, and trusting and mobilising teaching staff to make appropriate decisions. Coaches should empower educators, leaders and students to make informed decisions by understanding how networked devices e.g. phones, smart devices and online sites collect user information and implement settings that control levels of data that at an individual wants to share. Coaches should empower coachees to have the ability to represent themselves online based on activities or connections, and tagging through social media posts, photos, online comments or reviews.’
Everybody needs to consider their digital footprint, and how they are ‘marketing’ themselves. Educators need to help pupils understand the relevance of digital footprints, and what they are revealing about themselves online.
Child appropriate and private platforms can be a good place for educators to guide pupils to practise writing the information they want to convey about themselves. This includes sites like Flip where pupils can record videos of themselves and use like tools on their peer videos, and where comments can be moderated by a teacher.
Power Apps also allow for the creation of bespoke platforms with opportunities for profile pages where pupils can learn about profile content in a safe environment if Power Apps is kept within Teams. Pupils will understand the value of connectedness when they like and comment on each others’ profiles in a safe environment.
Coaches can ensure that pupils know how to be safe online and how to share the right content, and also the importance of connecting and engaging with others.
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