Making the news – Part 1
National Curriculum Links - Computing KS3
The content of this plan cover the following National Curriculum strands:
- undertake creative projects that involve selecting, using, and combining multiple applications, preferably across a range of devices, to achieve challenging goals, including collecting and analysing data and meeting the needs of known users
- create, re-use, revise and re-purpose digital artefacts for a given audience, with attention to trustworthiness, design and usability
- understand a range of ways to use technology safely, respectfully, responsibly and securely, including protecting their online identity and privacy; recognise inappropriate content, contact and conduct and know how to report concerns.
Unit Resources
Suggested Software
- Collaborative documents such as Google Docs or Microsoft Office 365 are recommended for the group planning stages of this project.
- Google or Microsoft Forms for creating surveys
Key computing vocabulary for this unit
Attribute - Giving credit to the person who created something, such such as listing the author's name and date, or a citation.
Collaboration - To work together with others. Many digital tools now allow easy collaboration as users can work remotely on the same document or system at the same time. Tools like Google G-Suite and Microsoft Office 365 offer a variety of collaborative documents and apps.
Copyright - Legal protection that a creators have over the things they create
Data - A structured set of numbers, representing digitised text, images, sound or video, which can be processed or transmitted by a computer.
Digital content - Any media created, edited or viewed on a computer, such as text (including the hypertext of a web page), images, sound, video, or virtual environments, and combinations of these (i.e. multimedia).
Evaluation - Making judgements (a computational thinking concept)
GDPR - The General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union and the European Economic Area. It also addresses the transfer of personal data outside the EU and EEA areas.
Media - All of the ways that large groups of people get and share information (TV, books, internet, newspapers, phones, etc).
Multimedia - Content that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content.
Plagiarism - Using someone’s creative work without providing attribution
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