Young People Safe Online – Year 7 lesson Plan.doc

Young People Safe Online – Year 7 lesson Plan The Internet as a public space ICT Framework Objectives USING DATA AND INFORMATION SOURCES Understand how someone using an information source could be misled by missing or inaccurate information. COMMUNICATING Know how to protect personal details and why this is important. Where this lesson fits with the KS3 National Strategy for ICT The National Strategy Sample Teaching Units and Case Studies give limited coverage of the Communicating strand of the ICT Framework Objectives. However, this aspect of ICT has moved on considerably since the ICT Framework was published three years ago. Many schools and parents are concerned about safety on the Internet, and a growing minority of pupils have direct personal experience of the issues involved. This lesson is the first one from a suite of three lessons, one for each year group in Key Stage 3, designed to introduce and consolidate understanding of Internet safety and security. The three lessons share certain resources, especially the Rome Group interactivity, which will need to be borne in mind if revisiting these materials later in the Key Stage. The three lessons in this suite cover the following: Year 7 – the Internet as a public space. Year 8 – downloading and copyright. Year 9 – the identity of remote partners. This lesson is designed to be taught alongside Sample Teaching Unit 7.2. The Sample Teaching Units, where used, should be adapted to the particular circumstances of each school. As given, STU 7.2 asks pupils to analyse the information requirements for a task, to judge relevance of information and to consider the reliability of information that has been found. The final lesson concentrates on this issue of reliability, vital to other aspects of life online, which arises from the nature of the Internet as an unmoderated public space. This Year 7 Young People Safe Online lesson plan considers the dangers inherent in the Internet as a public space, as well as more general