Smart Versus Not-Smart Devices
Your child can tell a smart device from a plain one. A smart speaker senses and responds; a toaster does the same thing every time.
In curriculum terms
Sorting objects into 'smart' (can sense and respond) and 'not smart' (just sits there); a toaster vs a smart speaker; introduction to the idea that some machines can sense and respond to the world
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
Could your child explain the difference between a normal light switch and one that turns on automatically when you walk into a room?
Where this sits on the map
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).