International Girls in ICT Day - 24th April
International Girls in ICT day was created by the United Nation's specialised agency for information and communication technologies, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), to encourage girls and young women to pursue STEM education and careers.
This collection of resources contains activities looking at how the internet works and how to use it safely. Those resources for primary aged pupils are at the top of the list whilst those for pupils aged 11 and above, which include activities looking at digital careers, are found further down.
Further advice, resources and events aimed at narrowing the gender gap within computer science may be accessed from the I Belong campaign, from Teach Computing.
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The Internet
The video explains the purpose of the activity which is, in simple terms, how the Internet works. This is an unplugged activity meaning that computing concepts are learnt without the use of a computer. All relevent terminology is explained. The lesson shows students pretending to flow through the Internet, whilst...
Digital industries
This set of three mini-interactive online games from Siemens explore a variety of digital industries:
- Cybersecurity
- Internet of Things
- Digital Twins
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Networks and the internet
Students would find this Computing at School community resource useful as a revision resource for the topics of networks and the internet. It is suitable to be issued as a sequence of homework tasks.