Posts Tagged ‘Digital Literacy’
Keep safe and create
About this unit: A combination of 3 lessons from Common Sense Education’s excellent digital citizenship curriculum and the chance for your students to apply their learning to digital making activities that would help them share the important online safety messages with others. National Curriculum Links – Computing KS1 The content of this plan cover the…
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About this unit: Introduce students to researching information, presenting what they find and creating exciting interactive quizzes. National Curriculum Links – Computing KS1 The content of this plan cover the following National Curriculum strands: use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content recognise common uses of information technology beyond school use…
Read MoreAnalysing your findings and writing up your report
Making the news, part 1 – Lessons 5 & 6 Objectives undertake creative projects that involve selecting, using, and combining multiple applications to achieve challenging goals, including collecting and analysing data and meeting the needs of known users. Analyses and evaluates data and information, and recognises that poor quality data leads to unreliable results, and…
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Making the news, part 1 – Lessons 3 & 4 Objectives undertake creative projects that involve selecting, using, and combining multiple applications to achieve challenging goals, including collecting and analysing data and meeting the needs of known users understand a range of ways to use technology safely, respectfully, responsibly and securely, including protecting their online…
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Making the news, part 1 – Lesson 2 Objectives Work collaboratively to effectively plan a research project Understand the ethics or safe practises of data collection and storage To understand how and why to give credit to external sources used in work Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Making the news – Part 1 Lesson 1…
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Making the news, part 1 – Lesson 1 Objectives Create, re-use, revise and re-purpose digital artefacts for a given audience, with attention to trustworthiness, design and usability Make judgements about digital content for credibility when evaluating and repurposing it for a given audience. Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Ofcom news consumption infographic Making the news -…
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Making the news – Part 1
About this unit: This unit is split into two parts. This first part requires students to examine the sources we use for our news, critique what they find online for credibility, and then plan, research and carry out their own investigative report linked to their school or local community. National Curriculum Links – Computing KS3 The…
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Technology in the world around us
Keeping Safe and Exploring Technology – Lesson 4 Objectives Know when and why to take breaks from device time. Consider the feelings of people around them, even when engaged in fun online activities. Lesson Resources Keeping Safe and Exploring Technology – Lesson slides Technology in the supermarket – sort and stick activity – Version 1 …
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