My eldest
aske me to give her lessons about ICT (Information, Computing and Technology)
because she wanted to take her school lessons further. So I developed a 10 week
course that covered the topics that she wanted, and the topics that I thought
were important: e-Safety, Office Apps, Researching on the Internet, and using
her Raspberry Pi. It’s been a really interesting learning experience for me:
which topics to choose, how to pitch the topics to the right age and ability, how
to deliver the topics to be engaging. I’m going to post how each lesson went.
Lesson 1: Staying safe on the Internet
Objectives:
· Identifying
safe and unsafe behaviours
· Playing
nicely online
· Understand
what to do if unsure
1.
List of 5 favourite online activities
3.
Follow links, read and discuss
4.
Watch a cartoon from Hector’s World
5.
Search for <me> online. Follow the links, and
write down all that you can find out about me.
6.
Critical evaluation - have I been safe online?
My approach was to highlight how her online behavoiurs could
be easily misinterpreted because there are no contextual cues. And these
contextual cues help to identify undesirable people and their undesirable behaviours.
The analogy I used was the school playground – a behaviour that would be mean
in the playground would also be mean online.
My eldest told me that her school had already played some of
the “Hector’s World” videos, so these topics were familiar to her. The task to
search for me online was quite surprising – apparently I may have a criminal record
in the US! But it nicely highlighted that relying on the Internet was itself an
unsafe behaviour (more on that in a subsequent lesson).
She was more engaged when the activity needed her to click
or type or write, rather than reading or
watching or listening. Her attention span also dropped to almost completely
distracted just before the hour mark – must make sure I pace the lessons
carefully.
I think she enjoyed the lesson, and I certainly enjoyed
giving it. We’re both looking forward to next week.
More in this series: part
2.
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