Computing at Avondale
National Curriculum - Use filters in search technologies effectively and is discerning when evaluating digital content.
Pupils should be competent in using online search technologies to locate information and resources. To be competent, pupils must be efficient in their use of keywords, identifying the most useful words to search for. They may also use advanced search filters to further refine their results.
In addition to this pupils should be confident in using different search tools, such as image search or news search, to help them loacte information more accurately.
Provide pupils with a series of topics to research, such as 'find out about last years' storms'. For each one, they identify the most effective search terms along with the best search tool eg. news search for '2014 storm uk'.
BELOW - Pupils use a range of search technologies to locate information and resources for a given topic.
MET - Pupils make effective use of a range of search technologies to efficiently locate information and resources. They confidently use these for their own purposes too.