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Lesson 4: What is a bot?

Discovering that technology can be designed to act like or impersonate living things and describing what the benefits and risks of this might be.
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Lesson plan

1. Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: 3, 2, 1 and hand out whiteboards and pens (one each). Ask the children to write down three facts, two opinions and one belief. Ask them to write about online safety in general, searching on the internet, a recent topic they have been learning or allow them to write about anything.

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Sarah Vaughan Computing specialist

Sarah has 13 years of experience teaching in a primary school and leading computing.

 

She now works as a Subject Matter Expert for the NCCE across the East Midlands. In this role, she supports primary schools with bespoke training to develop and implement their computing curriculum. Sarah facilitates computing courses for STEM and runs a series of local network meetings for computing leads.

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