Whilst on my BSE1 placement, I had the priviledge to watch a sequence of actual ICT lessons take place with a year five class.
It was interesting, as not only was this the first ICT lesson I had seen, but it was so different to the way we’d been taught ICT at school, when the whole class had to fight over the only two computers in the whole school- here every pupil had their own ipad!

The lesson was about creating ‘safe online profiles’, taking place over a sequence of lessons, to give the students a chance to discuss the topic and create their own video in pairs, using ‘MyMovie4’.

The first lesson was to recap what the students remembered about e-safety and discuss the seven main categories, which included:

1. What does e-safety mean?
2. Creating safe online profiles
3. Three Cs- content, contact and conduct
4. Film and game ratings
5. Fact or fiction information online
6. Copyright
7. Digital footprint

Their task was to choice one of these areas to base their film on and start planning!

The following lesson was the fun one- they were shown a few exampled of films previously made and were told to go, explore, experiment!

What followed were some very inventive films, in which students had used pictures, photos, filmed themselves and added music and text to create short films about their chosen categories.

They enjoyed this lesson very much, but in a lesson like this it is very easy to lose sight of the actual aim and I feel the students could have benefitted with more time to plan what text they would add to the video, as this came more as an after thought.

Overall, this experience gave me a great insight in to teaching technology and the importance of teaching e-safety in a fun and engaging way, at a time when children are constantly exposed to technology and may not be aware of how dangerous it could be.