During this week, there has been a planned focus to
sensitize our community that includes students, teachers, parents and even the
administration on issues regarding the Internet, Security, Digital Health and
Digital footprints.
This year, we outlined the following threads:
Thread 1: Digital Access – Implications of having digital
access to the world
Thread 2: Digital Commerce - The ability for users to
recognize that much of the economy is regulated online.
Thread 3: Digital Communication - This thread concerns the
standard of etiquette associated with understanding the variety of online
communication mediums such as email, instant messaging, Facebook messenger, the
variety of apps, and so forth.
Thread 4: Digital Literacy - This deals with the
understanding of how to use various digital devices. For example, how to
properly search for something on a search engine versus a database.
Thread 5: Digital Etiquette -Certain mediums demand more
appropriate behavior and language than others.
Thread 6: Digital Law - This concerns the enforcement of
laws against illegal downloads, plagiarizing, hacking, creating viruses,
sending spams, identity theft, cyberbullying, and so forth.
Thread 7: Digital Rights and Responsibilities - This is the
set of rights digital citizens have such as privacy, speech, and so forth.-
Thread 8: Digital Health - Digital citizens must be aware of
the physical stress placed on their bodies by internet usage. They must be
aware to not become overly dependent on the internet causing eye strain,
headaches, stress problems, and so on.
Thread 9: Digital Security: Safety measures to be practiced
using difficult passwords, pass phrases virus protection, backing up data, and
so forth.
The highlights of this week among others were a regular
daily dose to the community with Tech Tips covering the threads above,
assemblies that showcased and stressed on these threads in the form of role
plays, talks, displays,dialogues and also video clips.
We hosted a panel discussion with participation from members
of the student body, parent body as well as staff. This was an excellent
vehicle to gather very useful insights from all these different sections.
All four houses in the Senior school buzzed into action
towards the end of the week as they participated in an Inter House Board Making
competition
Students from middle and secondary school also competed in
creating intense movies and uploading them on youtube where they earned
viewership in addition to the judgement being done in house.
Commendable efforts from all participants producing very
classy end products.
We signed off the
week with a wide appreciation for the beginning of higher awareness and
sensitivity to our digital profiles.
Further, curriculum in lessons will include learnings and
activities that reinforce the focus of this week.
The bottom line is “Anything can happen….in just one
click!!”
