Monday 17th March

This afternoon we went on two websites. One was about a Victorian robot invented in 1893, it was a site written by Paul Guinan. We went on another website which was a website that asked a question, Was there really a Holocaust?. It was written by Dr. E.R. Fields. We explored both websites and tried to find out four questions about the websites. The questions were,
What is the message of these sites?
Who is the author? Does the knowledge of who the author is change your perception about the website?
Is there any new learning? What are your first impressions of the sites?
We then watched a video about Year nines in London going on these websites and getting information and learning about these sites. Then a computer expert came and talked to them, and explained how the website is not safe, they were told to take a deeper look at these websites and they found out who wrote these sites. They found that a few of the sites that they had been looking at weren't true, and one of them was a racist site. The message of this was that not all sites are what they say, and before you go on a site take a deeper look at it, who it is written by, what it is about and if it's safe.

Nana and Kirsten.