Digital Trailblazers

Using technology, including social media, is a significant part of many students' lives. Helping them to navigate and communicate safely is essential for their wellbeing and safety.  Understanding how the technology works empowers your students. 

Here at IT Savvy we know that your school will already have a wonderful wellbeing program and that you support the technical knowledge and skills of your students, but do you need to complement your existing programs with a focus on your students' engagement with social media, the online environment and being cyber aware when they are at home?

What

We will work with you to deliver a program tailored to the needs of your students and your school community to investigate what your students use, what they enjoy, how these technologies work, what challenges they present and how they can be used responsibly. 

Students will use their voice to develop key messages for an authentic audience. 

You can choose to:

• Use IT Savvy’s materials to run your own school based program 
• Engage the Creating IT Savvy Team to lead your students through an incursion at your school
• Have a virtual program delivered to your staff or students

Both options will provide students with the opportunity to address key issues including:

• Cyberbullying
• Personal information and privacy
• Online reality, 
• The AI algorithm influence and screen time
• Being a critical media consumer

The Digital Trailblazer program is not a passive experience with students engaging in a real inquiry based project as they:

• Develop and then explore key driving questions 
• Gain understanding through research and inquiry
• Craft recommendations and advice
• Develop an IT Savvy resource to share their knowledge with the school community

How

We generally recommend years 4-8. But we want you to consider which students "have influence" and can be afforded the time to continue to investigate, update and communicate with their community. 

 It could be a class, Year Level or a group of student representatives from across the school. 

The influence will be empowered by teacher/s who support their students to promote and share their findings as an authentic ongoing  task. 

These resources will be shared with key audiences identified by the school, including parents, teachers, other students, and the broader community.

There is also an option of professional learning for your staff supporting the program.

To complement the student focused program, IT Savvy can deliver pre and post sessions with your Learning Support Team, Year level Teams, whole school teams or parent community to build the level of IT Savvy across your entire school community, and provide a pathway to continue to build on the skills and knowledge students gain in the incursion.

With years of cyber safety, education and awareness experience the CITSavvy has educators available to support your school and the challenges that the external digital world can present.