Bluebirds learnt all about self image and identity in Computing today. They realised how everyone has an offline and online identity. For example, a person could like rock music (offline identity) and stream such music from Spotify (which in their online identity). They looked at two examples of two people’s images and identities and then completed work in their book. They chose examples about themselves and then colour coded whether the information should be disclosed online.
On Thursday, Bluebirds found out the difference between a search engine and a web browser. The children learned how to make a successful search using inverted commas for key words and by adding “for kids” to ensure suitable information only is provided. The children practised these techniques using Safe Search Kids.
You can access it here: Safe Search Kids | Internet Filtering with Google for Safer Search
Over the last few weeks, Bluebirds have been busy making algorithms on the Scratch computer programme and have been making their sprites move, speak and dance!
Bluebirds this afternoon looked at copyright and ownership as part of Safer Internet Day. Mrs Parry told the children the following statement: Just because I have a copy of an image or song that does not mean it is mine. The children then talked about if they thought this was true or not.
They looked at Yusuf and Ayra’s work and talked about if that work belonged to them or if it belonged to anyone who had a copy. As Ayra had worked so hard on her picture, it means that it belongs to her only and if you wanted a copy then you would need to ask.
The class watched a video about two characters that were disagreeing about who owned a picture, both felt they had created the picture on the computer. The children came up with ideas to help them solve this problem. First the children talked about having a name on the image. When no name could be found, the characters looked at other ways to prove who owned the work. They came up with looking at a folder on the computer to see whose folder it was in.
Like the character in the video, the children all save their work in a folder with their name on.
