What is a Digital Leader?

Digital technology is a significant part of our everyday lives. We use technology throughout the day for all jobs and purposes. Therefore ensuring that all our pupils grow into responsible digital citizens who are able to use technology purposefully and safely is of upmost importance to us.

Digital leaders in Cookham Dean is an important role.

Every class has digital leaders who:

• Help children in our class to log in and access their work.
• Train teachers on new software
• Help maintain and ensure computers are charged
• We support our peers in lessons and help teachers by showing children what to do
• We help children keep safe online.
• We make films and experiment with new software
• We code and  program to make our own games.

As digital leaders we meet every week on Tuesday lunchtime. Maybe you could join us sometime!

We encourage our classmates to follow the SMART rules when working online:

Digital Leaders meet regularly with Mrs Satterley each week. During these meetings they look at different aspects of online safety. Digital Leaders are then responsible for delivering the key messages from their meetings back to their peers, in their classes and across school. We believe that pupils should be educated about online safety by not only their teachers but also their peers. Digital Leaders use presentations to educate classes and also to deliver whole-school assemblies. 

What work have we been doing this academic year?

Here are some example Digital Leader Activities from this year:

• Demonstrating Computing skills to children and parents

• Managing equipment such as iPads, crumbles and Codepillars.

• Share Online Safety knowledge and advice

We presented in assembly all about Ai

We carried out a survey of the pupils use of AI.

• Blogging, Saving and Sharing work

• Supporting other children in lessons

• Digital ambassadors promoting correct behaviour

• Create Digital Displays using green screens

• Flipped Lessons and created video lesson resources e.g. how to sign in to school

Accounts

• Taken photographs for school trips or special occasions

• Interviewing (recording) other children for pupil voice surveys

• Uploading photos to school website

• Showing staff how to use software / apps during an INSET

Managing New Hardware

Thanks to our wonderful PTA and the BBC we now have  another full class sets of  iPADS. These are essential for our whole curriculum. Our digital leaders have been exploring and becoming experts using this equipment so that they can teach both other children and staff how to use new Apps.