We have been exploring Makey Makey, a physical computing piece of hardware ( or invention kit!😊) and have been having lots of noisy fun.
Over the past few weeks, we have attempted to make music using these kits and a variety of objects including bananas, tomatoes and leaves. It has been lots of fun debugging our work to ensure musical success.
Year 2 have been using commands to create different algorithms. They used an algorithm to program a sequence on a floor robot.
We have been learning about editing photos in our computing lessons. Have a look at this great piece of work created by Mika and Gemma on paint.net. Well done!
Year 4 used their photo editing skills today to create fake images. We had a classroom full of Roman dog or cat soldiers. Lots of learning, lots of work and lots of laughs too.
In Computing we have been exploring Adobe sparks to create a party invitation!
Picture frames! Designed by the children and made on Tinkercad during our Computing lesson.
We are really enjoying our new Computing unit! Here we are using Tinkercad to learning how to create 3D models.
Omegle has been a headache for those concerned with protecting children for a decade and a half. On first glance the site is a simple internet chatroom, reminiscent of platforms from the Internet’s early years. It has no registration or account system. Being designed with the originally innocent objective of getting strangers to talk to each other, but this allows under-18s to easily use the platform, without needing parental assistance, money or even an email address. This already creates a dangerous situation to young pupils, but its insistence on users needing a webcam to chat places anyone underage in an extremely vulnerable place. To find out more about Omegle and the risks it poses, please follow the links below:
Internet Matters: https://www.internetmatters.org/hub/news-blogs/what-is-omegle-what-parents-need-to-know/
Childnet: https://www.childnet.com/blog/what-is-omegle-key-things-parents-and-carers-need-to-know/
https://swgfl.org.uk/…/report-harmful-content-button
free and downloadable from here
Introduction to ChatGPT and AI chatbots – Ineqe Safeguarding Group
On Wednesday this week, safeguarding specialist Mawuli visited us at Bowker Vale. He held workshops for the children in years 4 and 5 where he taught the children how to stay safe online. He then held a workshop for the parents and carers of children in years 4 and 5, where he informed the attendees of the contracts users unknowingly sign when joining social media platforms, how easily information is gathered online and the risks associated with this, and how to implement parental controls on devices to keep children safe.
In Computing, we have been learning how to change codes and write programmes to create shapes and movement on Scratch. Each week we are going to learn a new skill to hopefully be able to create our own innovative and original game. Watch out Microsoft!
