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Get Online Week

Get Online Week is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Get Online Week rather than just read about it. In short: Get Online Week is an annual campaign that takes place in the UK and Europe. UK In 2007, UK online centres first marked out a date in October to bring digital inclusion to national attention.

Key takeaways

Get Online Week belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Get Online Week to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Get Online Week from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Get Online Week is an annual campaign that takes place in the UK and Europe.

UK In 2007, UK online centres first marked out a date in October to bring digital inclusion to national attention. Since then the campaign has grown into a week-long annual celebration, with thousands of events taking place each year in centres and more unusual locations, bringing digital skills and know-how to everyone. The 2010 event took place on 18–24 October 2010. In 2014, Get Online week took place on 13–19 October, with 1,103 locations running 5,000 events, with 80,000 participants. In 2015, the campaign took place on 12–18 October, organised by Tinder Foundation. It claims to be the biggest UK digital inclusion campaign. It is organised by Tinder Foundation a UK-based charity. 2013 was the 7th annual October event from UK online centres. Previously 'Get online week' was called 'Get online day' but the decision was made to change the name for 2010 and stretch the campaign over a week. This was due to the natural growth of the campaign and previous feedback that a day wasn't enough time to fit in all the activities that were arranged. Typically, Get online week's many events and promotional activities now happen throughout the whole month of October. UK online centres teamed up with a range of external partners who generated huge amounts of publicity for Get online week. They include the BBC, BT, Three, Post Office, TalkTalk, Facebook, EE and MLA amongst many others. Partners also hold their own events or direct people to one of the 3,800 UK online centres which are situated around England.

Europe The first European Get Online Day took place on 4 March 2010. It was inspired by the UK event, and it later became an annual campaign lasting a week, run by Telecentre Europe.

The European Get Online Week was inspired by the campaign with the same name run by UK online centres (now Tinder Foundation) in the UK. Telecentre Europe extended it to the European level, to get new computer users online by helping them to get through the doors of their local ICT learning centres, enabling the staff to build people's confidence to move on into a more structured learning. Since its take-off in 2010, the Get Online Week campaign has reached more than 600.000 Europeans in more than 20.000 learning centres across Europe. Thanks to the campaign, more than 100.000 people have used the Internet for the very first time.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Get Online Week

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Get Online Week claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Get Online Week before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Get Online Week ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Get Online Week

In research: Get Online Week appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Get Online Week in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Get Online Week is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Digital divide, Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom, Internet access, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Get Online Week outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Get Online Week in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Get Online Week means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Get Online Week out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Get Online Week in simple terms?

Get Online Week is an annual campaign that takes place in the UK and Europe. UK In 2007, UK online centres first marked out a date in October to bring digital inclusion to national attention.

Why does Get Online Week matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Get Online Week?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Get Online Week.