For the next two weeks, we are going to focus our learning on the searching the internet: search engines. This links to the theme of understanding and evaluating what we find and see on the internet – the main theme of Safer internet day. There is so much information available through the internet, but not all of it is accurate or safe. How do we find what we want? How do we know the facts are true?
Fortunately, there are some Oak academy lessons which very closely follow our plan for this term.
Each lesson is quite short – I suggest you do two this week and two next week. You could do them all in one week but don’t do them all on one day!
W/c 22nd February
Lesson 1 – Searching the web
Lesson 2- Selecting search results
W/c 1st March
Lesson 3 – How search results are ranked
lesson 4 – How are searches influenced?
Hopefully, we will be back together soon – I am looking forward to doing some more Scratch and pulling the Microbits out of their hiding place!
There are two extra lessons on using the internet to communicate which would be useful for you to complete. They focus on the different apps and social media platforms and consider who they are suitable for communicating with, age appropriate guidance and how to keep your information private.
Lesson 5 – How we communicate
Lesson 6 – Communicating responsibly