Background Information
TheSWIS Webwise Parent Ambassador Group held their first Parent Presentation last Friday at SWIS. It was a workshop 'For Parents by Parents'.
What is the SWIS Webwise Parent Ambassador Group?
I was very fortunate to attend an excellent workshop by Matt Harris, ED.Dat 21stCentury Learning Hong Kong (21CLHK) in March 2018. At the time Matt was Deputy Head (Whole School) for Learning Technology, British School Jakarta, Indonesia. He is now an International EdTech consultant working with international schools throughout the world.
Matt Harris had spent several years implementing an extensive Digital Citizenship program at BS Jakarta prior to the HK workshop. This involved many different aspects including working with the teachers, parents, students and leadership to develop a program that could be considered the benchmark for international schools throughout the world. You can download his presentation and read more about the program.
At BS Jakarta they formed a ‘Parent Ambassador Program’, which included:
- Training for a select group of active parents;
- Certificates;
- Common language for digital citizenship across the school;
- First line of resources for the parent body.
This year we decided to form the group by inviting all 31 class parent representatives each month to offer help, support and training.
For more information on specific roles and responsibilities of the group as well as a mountain of excellent resources we created this Padlet to share with all parents
SWIS Webwise Parent Presentation
Joyce Ma, Qin Qin, Feifei Cai and Santy Patel were the presenters at the 1st SWIS Webwise Parent Presentation in the SWIS Theatre. The presentation started with an excellent Ted Talk by Sara DeWitt entitled ‘3 fears about screen time for kids – and why they’re not true’.
Our parent presenters shared lots of advice and tips to the audience as well as personal experiences and how they dealt with them. The main point that was stressed during the presentation was the importance of communication between parents and their children about these issues.
Another important point stressed was the need to focus onthe quality of the Screen Time not the quantity and also on the ‘4C’s of Innovation and Learning’:
•Creativity and Innovation
•Critical Thinking
•Communication
•Collaboration
Where can I find out more?
The full presentation is available to download here.
All the Digital Citizenship resources are available to parents on the Padlet. It is our intention to set up a Digital Citizenship WeChat Subscription in the coming months for easier and faster access to resources.
Following the presentation we recorded two podcasts on SWIS ROC Radio (in English and Chinese) in which you will hear all about the roles and responsibilities of this group, why we meet, what we do and how you can join along to our monthly meetings. The podcasts are available as mp3 files on the Official SWIS Wechat Subscription.
You can also find out more about technology at SWIS including STEM activities such as Coding and Robotics on our Innovation Website
Come and Join the SWIS Webwise Parent Ambassador Group; for more information contact your class parent representative.
Ms. Rene Ren and I would personally like to thank all the parents who attended the monthly sessions of the SWIS Webwise Parent Ambassador Group since October and especially the parents who took on the responsibility of presenting on Friday.
Congratulations; you all did a great job.
Mr.Leonard/Ms.Ren
SWIS Webwise家长特使小组
SWIS Webwise家长特使小组于上周五在SWIS举行了他们的第一次家长讲座。此次家长讲座来自家长，服务家长。。
什么是SWIS Webwise家长大使组？
我非常幸运地参加了2018年3月在香港21世纪学习的ED.D Matt Harris的精彩工作室。 当时Matt是印度尼西亚雅加达英国学校学习技术副校长。他现在是一名国际EdTech顾问，与世界各地的国际学校合作。Matt Harris花了几年时间在香港研讨会之前，在雅加英国学校达实施了广泛的数字公民计划。这涉及许多不同方面，包括与教师，家长，学生和领导层合作制定一项计划，该计划可被视为全世界国际学校的基准。
您可以下载他的演示文稿并阅读有关该计划的更多信息。
在雅加达，他们组建了一个“家长大使计划”，其中包括：
•为感兴趣的家长提供培训;
•证书;
•整个学校的数字公民共同语言;
•出现问题时，家长可以首先寻求帮助的资源。
在21CL HK参加了这个杰出的研讨会之后，我与Rene Ren女士分享了Matt的想法，我们一起决定于2018年9月成立'SWIS Webwise家长特使'，以反映Matt所倡导的方法。 今年我们决定成立该小组，每个月邀请所有31位家长代表提供帮助，支持和培训。 有关该小组的具体角色和职责以及大量优秀资源的更多信息，我们同时创建了一个Padlet，与所有家长分享SWIS Webwise家长演示。 Joyce Ma，Qin Qin，Fei Fei和Santy Patel是SWIS Webwise家长讲座的主持人。 演讲开始于Sara DeWitt的一篇优秀的Ted Talk，题为“对孩子的屏幕时间有三种恐惧 - 以及为什么他们不是真的”。 我们的家长主持人向观众分享了许多建议和提示，以及他们如何处理这些建议和个人经历。
在演讲中强调的主要观点是父母与子女之间就这些问题进行沟通的重要性。
强调的另一个重点是需要关注屏幕时间的质量而不是数量以及创新和学习的'4'c'：
•Creativity and innovation创意创新
•Critical thinking批判思维
•Communication交流
•Collaboration合作
我如何了解更多信息？
完整的演示文稿可在此处下载。
Padlet上的父母可以使用所有数字公民资源。我们打算在未来几个月内建立数字公民微信公众号，以便更轻松，更快地获取资源。
演讲结束后，我们在SWIS ROC电台（中英文）上录制了两个播客，您将在其中听到有关该小组的角色和职责，我们见面的原因，我们的工作以及如何参加我们的月度会议。
您也可以在我们的SWIS微信公众号上聆听到这两个文件格式为mp3的播客。
如果您登录该网站：https://innovation.swis.cn，将会了解到更多SWIS的信息科技新动向，包括STEM、编程和机器人课程。
我们欢迎越来越多的家长成为SWIS家长特使。详细信息，请咨询您孩子所在班级的家长代表。
我亦谨此感谢自去年十月份以来，坚持每月出席SWIS网络沙龙的家长特使们，特别是上周五举行家长讲座的四位特使。
祝贺你们，这场家长讲座非常成功。
Mr. Leonard
