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7 courses
Computers & Digital Literacy · Preschool
Children find out what a device with a screen is, learn gentle and safe ways to use one (dry hands, sitting down, drinks kept away, soft taps), and practise using a device together with a grown-up while taking turns. Each lesson is a few minutes long and ends with something to do or talk about away from the screen.
Computers & Digital Literacy · Preschool
Children practise the three touch-screen moves they need most: one gentle tap followed by waiting, dragging with press-slide-lift, and listening to a direction before pointing and choosing. Pretend play away from the screen backs up each move.
Computers & Digital Literacy · Preschool
Children learn the three buttons that control a story video or audio story: play, pause and replay. They practise pausing to talk or take care of something, replaying a part they missed, and keeping sound at a just-right level by asking a grown-up to turn it down.
Computers & Digital Literacy · Preschool
Using Paint Pad, a pretend drawing app, children learn what three drawing tools do (crayon, paint bucket and stamp), make a picture where every tap adds something, fix a mistake with the undo button instead of throwing the picture away, and give their finished picture a name that tells what it shows.
Computers & Digital Literacy · Preschool
Children learn that pressing save keeps a creation so it can be found later, and that work closed without saving can be lost. They recognise saved work by its small picture and name in a gallery, find their own creation among others, and make a real art box to practise keeping and finding things.
Computers & Digital Literacy · Preschool
Children name the trusted grown-ups who help them with devices, practise 'stop and tell' when a screen shows something scary or confusing or asks them to buy, chat or type, and learn to notice tired eyes or a wiggly body and take a break away from the screen.
Computers & Digital Literacy · Every grade
A hands-on start for anyone new to computers, tablets or PlayOwl. Children really point, click, tap, drag, scroll, zoom and type, open and close tabs and windows, search on a pretend web, and take a tour of PlayOwl, all inside safe practice screens. It works with a mouse, a touch screen or a keyboard.
