The document discusses the importance of ICT in children's learning, emphasizing the need for them to become independent and discerning users of technology. A high-quality computing education promotes computational thinking, logical reasoning, and creativity while linking closely to other subjects like math and science. It also highlights the role of play in learning, encouraging children to engage with technology through firsthand experiences and reflection.

1. Y1 ICT Lecture 5
March 2013

2. “Children use and apply their ICT knowledge,
skills and understanding confidently and
competently in their learning and in everyday
contexts. They become independent and
discerning users of technology, recognising
opportunities and risks and using strategies
to stay safe.”
(QCDA, 2009)

3. A high-quality computing education equips pupils to
understand and change the world through
computational thinking. It develops and requires logical
thinking and precision. It combines creativity with
rigour: pupils apply underlying principles to understand
real-world systems, and to create purposeful and usable
artefacts. More broadly, it provides a lens through
which to understand both natural and artificial systems,
and has substantial links with the teaching of
mathematics, science, and design and technology.

6. Read Talk
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8. Creative challenge –
illustrate ‘The Internet’
through a painting.
Post it up to BlogFolio and
add a reflective comment.

9. “Experience of objects plays,
naturally, a very important role in
the establishment of dynamic
structures”
From Piaget (1961) A genetic approach to the psychology of thought

10.  Children learn through first hand experience in
activities they have chosen
 Play allows children to test their ideas
 Play lets children learn from mistakes
 Play fosters imagination and flexibility of mind
 Rich, enabling environments are provided
 Allow children to dictate the pace, length and
focus; interventions should be supportive
 Recognise children’s fascination with and
curiosity about what is going on in their worlds.
EYFS: Effective practice: play and exploration

17. Play with one of the programmable toys or video
games discussed during the session. Post a
reflection to your blog, focussing on what children
might learn through this or similar technology.

18. • Read Williamson (2009) and discuss the
place of commercial off-the-shelf
(COTS) computer games in primary
education.
• Please complete the confidential
module evaluation at
http://bit.ly/icteval
• You might like to spend at least some of
the summer break playing one or two
computer games; if so, blog about your
experience, focussing on the learning
that takes place whilst playing.
• Please make sure you have completed
all directed task work for Year 1 and
that your blog is completely up to date.