Mobile Computing / Tablet Skills

Following on from my previous post about KS1 skills, I am also now keen to begin to develop tablet skills within the school. This might be an opportunity to encourage other staff to better use the tablets as well as to provide a framework for what we want the girls to actually be able to do with them at each stage.

Currently this is in the format of a list of skills. It will grow as I realise the postential for the devices within the school.

Key Skills; Tablets
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4s7hMWhfvHlZVRvdllIWVlMV2c/edit?usp=sharing

KS1 Work

It is now time to begin work looking at the skills used by, and taught to, Years 1 & 2 within the school. My plan is to begin with a list of skills that I feel they require in order to continue the rest of the curriculum. This is largely then, a reflection on the skills that the girls have already, questioning how they got them, and what extras I believe would be useful.

Topics or objectives can then become a cycle, for example, using shapes to create pictures. This works to develop dragging and dropping skills, inserting shape skills and mouse skills in the lower part of the school, but is then built upon in Year 5 to create 2D images, changing properties of shapes and as a build up to modelling in 3D.

My initial thoughts are contained within the following document. This will hopefully be updated over the coming weeks and into the Christmas holiday.

Key Skills for KS1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4s7hMWhfvHlLUFHWWJCcFJWTjA/edit?usp=sharing