Due to a little thing called Christmas (no, I’ve never heard of it either) most computing lessons that were timetabled during my GPP were cancelled to make way for activities, assemblies, and rehearsals. This clearly left a dearth in the amount of the ICT curriculum covered. This, owing to a lack of internet signal for parts of the placement, was quite tricky to amend.
I decided, as part of the children’s history topic (Ancient Greece), to model an unplugged ICT lesson. The children were supposed to be learning about “The War of the Gods”, a significant part of Greek Mythology. As a prelude to that lesson I provided children with a list of questions that we could use to find facts in a search engine. I deliberately designed these questions to be too vague for a search engine to feedback with decent results (for example: “Who won the war?” and “Who was the king?”). We spoke about them and then I asked the children, in Kagan pairs, to rewrite the questions so that (on another day) a search engine would give us a better quality of information. The lesson was a success in that every child achieved the learning objective and could tell me A) what a search engine was and B) how to create a question in a search engine to give you the best results (be specific). Unfortunately, the internet was still down a few days later, so instead of allowing them to research using their questions on the iPads, I provided them with an information pack that I created from their questions.
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