11/10/17

Hello Doolittle Families,

Internet Safety is very important to us at Doolittle School.  Teachers speak with students about internet safety and expectations throughout the year.

Here is a list of just a few ways to help students search more safely on the internet:

• SafeYoutube.net (creates a new link of youtube videos and makes them the only thing students see; no links at the end of the video; at the end it simply replays)
• Viewpure is another way to see Youtube videos without ads or other links.
• Common Sense Media (commonsensemedia.com) - great resources for teaching in the digital age
• Type “simple” before a wikipedia site for simpler language
• Type any topic in the search bar and then type “for kids”

The Electronic Information Access Agreements for students outlines expectations and requires students to take responsibility for their online behavior.

Responsible Use Policy K-2

Responsible Use Policy 3-12

In addition to our Firewall and AdBlocker software Cheshire Public Schools will begin using GoGuardian for our sixth graders to ensure that students are safe while on line. See the information from Mr. Solan below:

As part of our consistent effort to engage students in personalized learning experiences and to support our inclusion of digital learning, Cheshire Public Schools continually seeks tools that will assist in the learning process. To this end, the District has made GoGuardian software available for our teachers in grades 6-9.  WithGoGuarian, teachers can control and monitor student Chromebook screens during class enabling them to efficiently keep students focused on specific tasks, lock student screens to specific documents or websites for instructional purposes, share screens as needed, and redirect students if necessary.  These capabilities will help our teachers maximize classroom instructional time in our 1‐to­‐1 technology environment.

GoGuardian is being used by more than 2,300 school districts and 4,000,000 students to help teachers better engage with their students, provide educators with more control over how Chromebooks are used in the classroom and keep students safer when they're online.  A demo is available at this link - https://goguardian.wistia.com/medias/fln6ndzp2o

As with any digital service, protecting student privacy is paramount.  GoGuardian features are limited to school hours only and the school issued device must be on the district network in order for the program to work.  This simply means that after school hours and/or outside of our school network, GoGuardian is inoperable.

Please let me know if you have questions about internet safety at Doolittle.

Picture of the week:

Mr. Pierce and Doolittle Students created the banner below last week.

All Doolittle students signed their first name during lunch waves.

The banner has been hanging in the West Haven VA all this week.