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Digital literacy resources

Created with assistance from Archives of IT, these 5 new resources will take your students on a journey to improve their digital literacy using computers and technologies in school and at home.

Digital skills are essential for daily life and can open the doors to a whole range of exciting technologies that learners may have access to in the future.

In this set of resources, learners aged 5 to 11 can carry out a series of hands-on activities and learn practical skills around animation, recording their own interview and even developing a brand new computer game! There are also links to Art and History when learners can look at abstract geometric art and then create their own computer art, as well as learning how to capture and edit digital images.

Remember all our online resources are free to download. Please do share your learning highlights with us @IETeducation and email your work to Archives of IT to inspire more children to take part in these activities! Please remember that by sending us these images, you as a school consent to the students' work being displayed on our website and/or social media channels.

Animation: Make moving pictures

Introduce the concept of digital art and increase understanding of methods of animation, both old and new!

Go to Animation make moving pictures

Audio editing

Find out why it is important for us to interview people and what a good interview looks like, before creating an interview script and recording their own interview.

Go to Audio editing

Coding games

Design and create their own computer game in Scratch then swap and play with their friends!

Go to Coding games

Digital painting

Develop an understanding of Piet Mondrian’s abstract geometric art then use paint software to create art, inspired by Mondrian’s work.

Go to Digital painting

Digital photography

Understand terms used in graphics and art, how to capture digital pictures, and how to edit digital images.

Go to Digital photography

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James Webb Space Telescope

Learn about science and maths; density, counting and subtraction and do some stargazing during the James Webb Space Telescope's journey around the universe with our fun and free primary resources. 

Go to James Webb Space Telescope