Today’s blog reinforced and reminded me of the dangers of online safety. It is important to remember that the browsing history is visible to the outside world. One area of new information was finding out about the digital footprint, and that they are traces of what we have been looking at and finding out. It is important to share these with the children within our class, ensuring that the content is suitable for the age group that we are teaching. Having these concerns in our head, it is important to pass on the positives that the internet provide us with. [embeddoc url=”https://eportfolios.roehampton.ac.uk/woollard/files/2016/10/ICT-Presentato-v7cxow.pptx” download=”all” viewer=”microsoft”]

Found this lesson difficult to follow as it wasn’t as hands on as the IWB session the previous week. Having taught algorithms via a website already set up I found the deeper understanding of it tricky to get to grips with, however found it interesting to know what underpins algorithms within the ICT curriculum. I feel I would have connected better with it had we had an opportunity to practice ourselves individually on the computers, but nonetheless found it an interesting concept to understand how and why we teach it.

Challenges: Teaching it correctly to a class, with the correct terminology and deeper understanding that comes with that. Find out the required levels of understanding throughout the primary key stages.

Thoroughly enjoyed lecture around the use of IWB within the classroom. Within previous school experience I have created notebooks to aide the teaching, however am wary of becoming to reliant on the use of technology. It is is nice to have it in the background, but it is important to have hand on, practical activities to also aide the learning. This ensures that children have a range of learning resources.

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