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Then click on the left-hand menu to access: The Theme quiz, downloadable pdf Theme lessons and teacher notes that go with the NiE page.

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This week’s NiE X-Press page, published on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 looks at e-Learning and cyber safety.

Schools and teachers will be familiar with e-Learning in classrooms to various degrees. Many students use ICT as an extension of themselves, having being born into a time where technology is part of their everyday life.

This NiE page asks students to reflect on how e-Learning has allowed learning to take place well beyond the school grounds. The page can be used as a springboard to explore different learning tools – both technological and non-technological tools, and what personal experience students have with using and evaluating them.

Students are referred to a website where they can find tips on cyber safety. You can turn this into an activity by asking students to draw up a contract between themselves and their school/teacher/parents about how they will protect themselves online.

More information and teaching suggestions can be found under the More information tab on the left-hand menu.

Page contents
Anywhere, any time – how e-Learning has made learning more flexible
e-Schools – how e-Learning benefits schools and students
Public e-Learning – e-Learning in public places (e.g. like museums and art galleries) use technology to inform and educate.
Cyber safety – students are directed to a website to learn about how to keep themselves safe
Websites – students explore the NiE website actvities

The downloadable theme lessons include:
Newspaper search – students search the newspaper for articles or pictures of technology and focus on one, and how it could be used for learning purposes.
Evaluating a website –judging the reliability of a website. Students create an evaluation checklist and use it to evaluate their favourite website.
e-Learning motivates – students read and respond to a news article online about how a school discovered that blogging motivates boys to write.

You can find these lessons under the Theme lessons tab.

Encourage your students to use the student activities accessible from the home page. They do not need to register on the website.

Student Features

Encourage your students to use the Front Page Builder activity accessible from the home page. They do not need to register on the website.

Page Theme Quiz – new each week

Front Page Builder – an interactive front page builder where students use supplied current news pictures and captions to make their own front page.

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The APN NiE team