9 Summary of Session 5

In this session you learned about technology in children’s lives, digital literacy and twenty-first-century skills, how children use the internet, e-safety, and how digital technologies have changed the ways children read and write.

You should now be able to:

• understand digital literacy and twenty-first century skills
• recognise the impact of technologies and digital literacy on children’s lives and their learning
• identify some of the opportunities and risks that the connected world brings for children.

In the next session on digital technologies, you will learn about computing as a school subject, why it is considered important, and some ways to teach computing in primary schools.

You can now go to Session 6 [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .