Digital Literacy and Online Safety – Action Plan

Instructions:

This template should be used to consider your action plan in response to the identified online safety needs of your students. This document will be
peer-reviewed by 3 MOOC participants. You will also have to peer review 3 action plans. The deadline to finish the peer assessment activity,
including the action plan submission and the peer review, is Wednesday, 26 May at 23:59 CEST.
This final peer-to-peer course activity consists of these parts:
Part A: Consultation
Using a survey based on key questions you have already considered throughout the MOOC, you will consult with children/young people to
explore their online safety needs. These could be related to education and awareness, your school’s policies and practice, or changes that they
would like to see from other key stakeholders such as the internet industry and national policy makers.
Please see the MOOC unit 4.6 Peer Assessment Activity Instructions for additional resources to help you carry out a consultation.
Part B: Work Submission
In order to get a course certificate, you will need to create and submit a school action plan that responds to the needs of children and young people
that you identified in Part 1. Your action plan must be in English, otherwise it will not qualify. You will submit your action plan by uploading it to
cloud storage (such as Google Drive or Dropbox) then sharing a public link to the plan through the end of course submission form on the MOOC.
Final step: Peer Review
After submitting the school action plan, you will move on to the final part of the peer-to-peer activity – the peer review. Each course participant
will receive three other course participants' school action plans to review. To help you review the school strategies, an Action Plan rubric is
provided in Module 4, an evaluative method often used in education instead of numerical grading. It is recommended to take a look at the rubric
before you start drafting your action plan, because it will be evaluated by the same criteria during the review.
After you submit your action plan and review three other course participants' strategies, you will have successfully completed the final course
activity and you have earned the course certificate.

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 1. Understanding your school context
Describe your school in 1 paragraph. Include your school’s name, location (urban, rural area, country/city, etc.), type of school
(vocational, technical, etc.), school’s target group ((pre-)primary, secondary school, etc.) and any additional information that could
help understand your school’s general context.

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 2. Identifying needs
Explain how you collected information about the online safety needs of your students from Part A of the assignment (e.g. survey,
focus group, etc.)
List the key needs that you identified from your consultation.

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3. Aims/focus areas

1. Describe here your focus areas. Replace the examples in blue below with your own focus areas:

1. (e.g. Increased school awareness of social media-related risks)

2. (e.g. Clearer processes for responding to cyberbullying)
3.

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 4. Strategic Goals and Objectives
For each of the Focus areas defined above, describe in the table below the corresponding strategic goals and objectives that will help
you realise those focus areas.

You can adapt the table as required. Delete the examples in blue below and replace with your own focus areas, goals and
objectives.

Tips:

● Strategic goals must be high-level, ambitious but also specific. They will generally have a deadline of 1 year or more.
● Make your goals as SMART as possible.
● Objectives must be measurable and must provide a time frame for their completion.
● Write SMART objectives. i.e. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound.
● If the actions required to achieve an objective are unclear or if the objective requires too many actions to be completed you
should consider breaking down the objective into more manageable, attainable ones.

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Focus Area Strategic Goals Objectives

Focus Area 1: Increased 1.1 By the end of 2022 increase 1.1.1 By the end of 2021 develop an awareness raising programme for parents focusing
school awareness of social parents’, pupils’ and staff’s on social media and associated risks
media-related risks awareness of social-media related
risks by 50% Objective 1.1.2

Objective 1.1.3

Strategic goal 1.2 Objective 1.2.1

Objective 1.2.2

Objective 1.2.3

Strategic goal 1.3 Objective 1.3.1

Objective 1.3.2

Objective 1.3.3

Focus area 2 Strategic goal 2.1 Objective 2.1.1

Objective 2.1.2

Objective 2.1.3

Strategic goal 2.2 Objective 2.2.1

Objective 2.2.2

Objective 2.2.3

Strategic goal 2.3 Objective 2.3.1

Objective 2.3.2

Objective 2.3.3

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Focus area 3 Strategic goal 3.1 Objective 3.1.1

Objective 3.1.2

Objective 3.1.3

Strategic goal 3.2 Objective 3.2.1

Objective 3.2.2

Objective 3.2.3

Strategic goal 3.3 Objective 3.3.1

Objective 3.3.2

Objective 3.3.3

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 5. Action Plan
Fill in the table below. Add as many activities as required to achieve each of your objectives.

Delete the examples given and replace by your own objectives and activities.

Tips:

The action or Implementation describes the steps and timelines necessary to achieve the goals. This plan specifies which initiatives
need to be developed, by whom and when, so that your school’s goals and objectives can be achieved.

● A clear statement of the activity. This serves as a reference point in developing a work plan.
● The entity responsible for implementation. This gives the responsibility for each activity. The entity person or listed as
responsible should oversee that goals, objectives and/or activities happen as planned.
● Time period. This shows what should be delivered and when.
● Results or outputs. Outputs are the products, goods and services that result from your strategic plan. This information is
critical to monitor if the target for a given activity over a given period have been achieved.
● Resources. Here all the resources – material, financial and/or human – that are needed to put the strategic plan in place should
be listed.
The following questions can help you reflect about the types of resources that your plan will require:
● Do you need colleagues, students or parents to support you with any of the goals, objectives or activities?
● Do you need any material or financial resources from the school to develop the activities described in the strategic
plan?
● Do you need any resources which are not currently available from the school? If so, how are you planning to get them?

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Objective Activity Responsible Time period or Expected results/ Resources
deadline outputs required

Objective 1.1.1 Activity 1 Teachers X and Y June 2021 A public 1-hour debate - Big room or
where parents and pupils auditorium
By the end of Carry out a school debate discuss social media pros - Big screen
2021 develop an about social media and its and cons - Microphones
awareness raising related risks - ….
programme for
parents focusing
on social media
and associated
risks Activity 2

Develop awareness raising

materials

Objective 1.1.2

Objective 1.1.3

Objective X

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 6. Monitoring progress and assessing your strategy
Make a plan about how your strategy will be monitored and assessed.

Don’t forget to delete the examples given in blue and replace by your own.

Tips:

● Before describing your monitoring and assessment plan, reflect on the questions below:
● How will progress be measured?
● How often will progress be measured against goals?
● What exactly will be measured? i.e. How will you assess that each strategic goal is being or has been fulfilled?
● How will those findings be reported, to whom and for what purpose?

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 Focus Area Strategic Goals How will progress and/or goal attainment be assessed? Time period/deadlines

Focus Area 1: Increased 1.1 By the end of 2021 Pre-intervention and post-intervention survey to measure pupils Survey 1: June 2021
school awareness of increase pupils’ awareness level of social media risks awareness before and after strategy
Survey 2: December
social media-related risks of social-media related risks implementation.
2021
by 50%

Strategic goal 1.2

Strategic goal 1.3

Focus area 2 Strategic goal 2.1

Strategic goal 2.2

Strategic goal 2.3

Focus area 3 Strategic goal 3.1

Strategic goal 3.2

Strategic goal 3.3

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