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Welcome Early Years teachers!
Here are my recommendations for apps, websites, software and hardware for teaching Early Years computing skills and objectives.
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Online Safety
- Children should know what to do if they have a problem on a computer/device.
- Children should learn about 'stranger danger' on the internet.
Smartie The Penguin
Coding
- Children can give simple instructions to control a device, like a 'floor' robot, or on-screen object.
- Children can use trial and error to produce an accurate set of simple instructions, to control a floor 'robot' or on-screen object.
Busy Things - EY Coding
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Beebot
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Blue-bot
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Beebot
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Blue-Bot
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Code-A-Pillar
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Digital Creativity
Digital Design
- Children can use ICT to generate ideas for their work.
- Children can use various tools such as brushes, pens, rubber, stamps, shapes.
- Children can save, retrieve and print work.
Photo Editing
- Children can take a digital picture as part of a task.
Sound Editing
- Children can record a sound as part of a task.
Video Editing
- Children can capture video.
- Children can discuss which videos to keep and which to delete.
Busy Things: Digital Art
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J2e JIT: Digital Art & Text
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Photos: Photo Editing
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Chrome Music Lab: Exploring Sounds
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Core Skills
Typing and Mouse skills
- Children can find particular keys on a keyboard such as letters and numbers.
- Children can use a mouse, finger etc. to select and move items on the screen, assembling or matching objects.
- Children can use some software to create / assemble digital content for clear purpose.
Internet and Computer Systems
- Children know the different parts of a computer.
Busy Things: Typing & Mouse Control Games
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Mouse Practice
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