06 Infrastructure and Institutions

1. As you prepare for the Working Group Meeting 1, please look online for standards for your group around digital engagement, cyber safety and cyber wellness. We'll focus on these areas in Meeting 1.

2. Add your suggestions for Standards for Digital Citizenship in the appropriate column on the Padlet below.

During the roundtable, participants brainstormed some suggestions for possible standards for institutions. They initially used a Padlet as indicated. 

Analysed standards from Iteration 1 Brainstorm

Dr Tarling analysed the standards developed from Iteration 1 Brainstorm. These are included in the GSheet and Wordcloud.

Working groups can use this analysis to prepare for the first online working group meeting.

After the first meeting, initial, broad standards were identified and expanded. During the meeting, additional points were added for discussion and included in a growing list which lead to the development of potential level descriptors for the different standards. 

The second working group meeting discussed potential standards for the 1) Digital Learning Strategy at schools, 6) Providing support for schools and 7) Standards for content developed for and at schools. The initial GDoc was reformatted to flow easier through these points. The night of the meeting, a taxi strike had been declared hours before the meeting was to start. Many of the participants in the working group were unable to attend, partly due to the taxi strike and the ensuing traffic chaos. Therefore, the decision was made to leave the Google Doc open for editing so those who wanted to still add ideas could continue doing so.

While standards for 01) Learners, 02) Educators and 03) School Leaders were generally quite adaptable to a rubric format, this was not the case for 04) Parents and Communities, 05) NGOs, supporters and volunteers, and 06) Institutions and Infrastructure. The nature of the standards for groups 4-6 was more aligned with general guidelines for good practice than a progression or continuum. It was therefore decided to not present the last three group's standards using a table / rubric format, but instead use a standard bullet point format.

Additionally, the need was expressed in Groups 4 - 6 for a toolkit, including a first aid kit, that parents, NGOs and schools could consult when they needed it. The different groups were asked to share existing ideas and documents that could be added to such a toolkit for their group, which many of them did. It was also suggested that the toolkits be shared in a central space where all schools and stakeholders from all provinces could access it in an easy and open manner.

Please use the Padlet below to post any comments, questions or suggestions about your working group or the general process that we need to be aware off. We can only improve the process with your input, and really value hearing from you!