Digital Leaders

Friday 1st November 2024

We welcomed our digital leaders to their first meeting. Our members all shared the range of technology that they have in their homes. We discussed the role of promoting safe and responsible use of technology both in School and at home.

Each member shared their experience with Technology and the technology that they have access to in their own homes. There was a range of responses but 11/12 members all have an iPad. Our discussion then turned to YouTube as most member talked about accessing YouTube at home. We talked about the positives - this including connecting with people with similar interests. Our members use YouTube for:

Drawing

Gaming solutions

Following a comedy Youtuber

Homework

The members also had a good awareness of risks:

Inappropriate words

Inappropriate content

Some members talked about the rules in their homes and how parents have controls set up.

When we talked about the addictive nature of YouTube, the members were unaware of how to break the algorithm written into YouTube.

We agreed to survey each class to find out how many children across School use YouTube or YouTube Kids and then follow this up with posters and an assembly on safe use of this platform.

Ella and Sam will work with Mrs Lumb to create the survey for each member to complete with their class.

Mrs Lumb