AF 1 Planning, Developing and Evaluating Plan and implement solutions that combine and refine different forms of information

Examples taken from School, or Basic Explanation Design Mr Reynolds a new ICT suite. Children use a 3d design package to plan the new room. They need to take into account the set budget as well other design specifications. Using PowerPoint the children can copy different views showing the design from different perspectives in order to persuade the contractor (Mr Reynolds) to choose their design. The program also plots what has been spent on the design, and the children can annotate data and graphs to pinpoint specific aspects of the design choice.

Evaluate the quality and Children use self assessment sheets to rate the success of their work. Using this sheet they can see their next-steps success of their solutions Explain how and why the use of ICT varies in and out of school Why do we not have a suite of 26 computers at home? (there is no need)! How else is technology used at home and school? Compare and contrast.

AF2 Handling data, Sequencing Instructions and Modelling Organise and process data for a purpose

Examples taken from School, or Basic Explanation

How healthy are we? (as a class) Create a questionnaire in order to find out what we eat, how much exercise we do, resting and active pulse rates etc. Store this data in a database or spreadsheet graph up - analyse and present the results I PowerPoint. Other examples: Are boys generally taller than girls? Which person stole Mr Bakers car? Is it true that everywhere in the World - February is the coldest? Using spreadsheets and databases we can sort and graph information in order to answer questions.

Devise and refine sequences of Instructions.

At Pinkwell, instructions are basically interpreted as computer programs. How can we make things happen? How can we control things? We devise (make) many instructions-mainly in order to control an output, such as a robot, a motor or lights. Children are constantly refining their programs. Refining - improving and adapting a program, or indeed refining in order to edit a mistake out of a program. Bug hunting! Another basic example of an instruction could be programming custom animation in a PowerPoint. First this picture flies in, then that one, then a text box appears. These could be programmed to work on a mouse click, or automatically.

Use models to explore relationships between inputs and outputs and explain how the models work

Using a simulation we can observe that when we put more power into a throw, a ball will fly further. More powermore distance. We can design a plane, and observe that when its weight increases, we need to also increase thrust in order for it to take off. Models work because they follow a mathematical rule that has been programmed. If the program has a mistake, the results will be FALSE and unreliable. By continuing a graph of results, we can predict unknown factors.

AF3 Finding, Using and Communicating Information Use appropriate search criteria to find relevant information, and check its plausibility and usefulness

Examples taken from School, or Basic Explanation

Search criteria = key words / phrases. We need to know that we dont need to type a question or sentence into a search engine. (hurricane ww2) will give us search results about the fighter plane of World War 2, NOT the weather system. We know that Wikipedia is great for pictures, but because it is written by the general public (you and me) it isnt necessarily the best place for data. If we are going to use information from Wiki, we NEED to find other websites that back up the information. (*Notesince MANY sites copy their information from Wikipedia, this is a difficult task)!!

What is best to put our information across? Present information in different forms suited to A Poster? A PowerPoint Presentation? Do we need to make the PowerPoint interactive and include hyperlinks? purpose Do younger children want more pictures? Is having clipart appropriate for older children? Use ICT to communicate and collaborate, identifying some of the risks and acting to minimise them How can we work together? Companies such as news-corporations collaborate as a team in order to create a joint piece of work. Copying isnt always a bad thing. We can collaborate in many ways. Maybe share the workload of a presentation. I do certain pages, you do others. Another way is to copy certain elements (with permission) from one piece of work to another. We can copy a remote control from a friends PowerPoint, and reference them in the title page.

AF4 Word Processing Can use text boxes, callouts, tables and text formatting to achieve a desired layout or effect

Examples taken from School, or Basic Explanation Text formatting: Changing the font, size and colour of text. We also need to be able to make text bold, underlined and italics in order to make certain words stand out. Even in year 1 we need to think about the trade off between using a cool funky font that people cant read compared to using a boring font that actually is EASY to read. Word art is another way of making text stand out for a reader. Text boxes are. Boxes with text in them. We need to be able to format their line thickness, colour and background. All of this writing is typed into a table. Basically some text boxes grouped together in order to lay text out in an easy way to read. Callouts are basically Speech bubbles, or other shapes that are fun looking text boxes. Handy for highlighting interesting information in a poster. Comments are comments at the bottom of a page, rather like notes. Useful in a PowerPoint where the presenter reads the comment from a paper version, but is hidden by the audience. A red squiggly line underneath a word is a possible spelling mistake. A green squiggly line is highlighting a possible grammar mistake. Children should appreciate that Microsoft will only recognise traditional Anglosaxon names, and that their name may be highlighted as splet wrong. They can right-click + add to dictionary if the are sure they have spelt their name correctly.!

Can insert and view a comment To use grammar functions when editing and modifying work

Can insert page numbers, headers and footers and hyperlinks

A hyperlink is a word, picture or shape that will open another file, page or web link. We can easily make a PowerPoint a quasi website by hyper-linking a contents page to the slides they are linked to, as well as linking words to a glossary and giving the reader the option to learn more by clicking links to useful websites. We also learn to create a remote control of hyperlinks to the previous and next slides, the contents page and the last slide viewed. This really make a PowerPoint act like a website.

AF5 E-safety Understands that anti-virus spy ware needs to be kept up to date.

Examples taken from School, or Basic Explanation Every day 1000s of viruses are being written. If Anti-virus software isnt kept up to date then these new viruses will be allowed into the computer environment and potentially corrupt the system and files within. The same is true for updating operating Systems such as Windows and Linux.

Demonstrates safe practises when joining and participating in online communities, chat rooms or web based applications.

Basically this means staying SMART! S: Safe (secure). Keep passwords etc secret M: Meeting. Dont bother getting to know strangers, and especially dont meet cccccccccccc up with any! A: Accepting. Dont accept messages and emails from people you dont xcxxxxxxxxx know. Dont download from unknown sources or Pop-Ups R: Reliable. People may not be who they seem. Information may also be cccccccccccc unreliableeither a lie or a mistake T: Tell. Tell a trusted adult if there are ANY problems!