Information Technology Reference
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Task 7.5
Validation and verification
Can you think of a way to help pupils avoid the confusion between 'validation'
and 'verification'?
OTHER COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM
• Pupils can struggle to appreciate the differences of saving on the hard drive,
the school network, external devices and the 'cloud'. This needs to be taught
to them, alongside the necessary skills.
• Pupils lose work by not saving regularly, or saving to the wrong place. Teach
them by explaining why it is necessary, and by reminding them frequently to
save and where to. They need to appreciate that a file being edited at any
given point is a copy of the file, which is in hard storage, but with certain
exceptions that they also need to know about; e.g. database files.
• Pupils sometimes do not understand the difference between cut and paste
and copy and paste. They need to be shown the difference. It is important to
also teach them that sometimes these are inappropriate; e.g. rules on copyright
and plagiarism.
• The word 'print' is a licence for the unrestrained production of paper-based
material. You need to make pupils aware that being careful with resources is
very important, particularly where the words 'print', 'colour' and 'A3' are used
in the same sentence.
Task 7.6
Misconceptions
Discuss other misconceptions you have come across and add them to these lists.
REFERENCES
Becta (2007) What is ICT? Available at http://archive.teachind.com/becta/schools.
becta.org.uk/indexcb85.html?section=cu&catcode=ss_cu_skl_02&rid=1701 .
Accessed 30/03/2014.
E-Skills UK (2014) available at https://www.e-skills.com/careers/labour-market-
information/ Accessed 30/03/2014.
Longman, D. (1998) Common Misconceptions in ICT , Mirandanet. Available at h t t p : //
www.mirandanet.ac.uk/profdev/misconceptions.htm . Accessed 31/03/2014.
Loveless, A. and Longman, D. (1998) Information literacy: innuendo or insight?
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Ofsted (2011) ICT in Schools 2008-11 , Ofsted. Available at http://www.ofsted.gov.
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