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Enabling Your Child to be an Independent User of ICT

Nearly every 'how do I...?' question about homework on a screen can be taught once, so your child can get on without you.

  • 24 minutes
  • 9 modules
  • 0.5 CPD hours
  • Certificate

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What you'll learn

  • Model device skills with clear, repeatable steps your child can follow alone
  • Organise folders, bookmarks and saved links so school work is easy to find
  • Rehearse new software or an online lesson before it matters
  • Help your child research homework properly instead of copying answers
  • Build habits of saving work often and taking regular screen breaks

About this course

If every piece of online homework starts with your child calling you over, it's hard on both of you. Children are expected to use a keyboard as easily as a pencil, but someone still has to show them where the save button is.

Independence comes from small habits. Use the proper words (toolbar, browser, keyboard) and the same clear steps each time, so they can repeat them on their own. Set up folders and favourites for the sites school uses. Before a first online lesson or presentation, do a dress rehearsal on a video call with a grandparent, and pin up a checklist for logging on: link saved, headphones tested, device charged.

It also covers the difference between researching a question and googling the answer, why copied work can land an older student in real trouble, and typing games that make practice fun.

  • For parents, support staff and teaching assistants. Early years, primary and special.

9 modules

Open in order

  1. Introduction

    2 min

  2. Model how to use your devices at home

    5 min

  3. Have a dress rehearsal

    3 min

  4. Use ICT to help with homework

    5 min

  5. Give a checklist to help them set up before online class

    3 min

  6. Improve your child’s ICT skills in a fun way

    3 min

  7. Emphasise importance of breaks

    3 min

  8. Emphasise the importance of saving their work regularly

    2 min

  9. Wrap up

    2 min