ict capability
What is Information and Communication Technology capability?
ICT capabilities: "being able to use ICTs effectively and know which ICTs to select for specific tasks. It also involves learning about safe use and practice."
https://digitaltecheducation.weebly.com/bits--bytes-blog/whats-the-difference-between-ict-capabilities-digital-technologies-learning-area
"The capability involves students in learning to make the most of the digital technologies available to them, adapting to new ways of doing things as technologies evolve and limiting the risks to themselves and others in a digital environment." Australian Curriculum.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability whereby students learn to use ICT effectively and appropriately to access, create and communicate information and ideas, solve problems and work collaboratively in all learning areas at school and in their lives beyond school. https://www.digitaltechnologieshub.edu.au/teachers/australian-curriculum/ict-vs-digital-technologies
The study of English enables students to develop and apply knowledge, understanding and skills of ICT in their composing, responding and presenting, and as part of the imaginative and critical thinking they undertake in English.
Students have the opportunity to become competent, discriminating and creative users of ICT as they learn to use ICT effectively and appropriately when investigating, creating and communicating ideas and information. Students will learn about the ethics of information communication through technology.
https://syllabus.nesa.nsw.edu.au/english/english-k10/learning-across-the-curriculum/
ICT capabilities: "being able to use ICTs effectively and know which ICTs to select for specific tasks. It also involves learning about safe use and practice."
https://digitaltecheducation.weebly.com/bits--bytes-blog/whats-the-difference-between-ict-capabilities-digital-technologies-learning-area
"The capability involves students in learning to make the most of the digital technologies available to them, adapting to new ways of doing things as technologies evolve and limiting the risks to themselves and others in a digital environment." Australian Curriculum.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability whereby students learn to use ICT effectively and appropriately to access, create and communicate information and ideas, solve problems and work collaboratively in all learning areas at school and in their lives beyond school. https://www.digitaltechnologieshub.edu.au/teachers/australian-curriculum/ict-vs-digital-technologies
The study of English enables students to develop and apply knowledge, understanding and skills of ICT in their composing, responding and presenting, and as part of the imaginative and critical thinking they undertake in English.
Students have the opportunity to become competent, discriminating and creative users of ICT as they learn to use ICT effectively and appropriately when investigating, creating and communicating ideas and information. Students will learn about the ethics of information communication through technology.
https://syllabus.nesa.nsw.edu.au/english/english-k10/learning-across-the-curriculum/
Students live in a rapidly changing technological world.
Information and communication technology (ICT), including hardware and personal digital devices, software, and systems that manage, store, process, create, produce and communicate information, has become an important part of everyday life.
http://syllabus.nesa.nsw.edu.au/support-materials/integrating-ict/
Information and communication technology (ICT), including hardware and personal digital devices, software, and systems that manage, store, process, create, produce and communicate information, has become an important part of everyday life.
http://syllabus.nesa.nsw.edu.au/support-materials/integrating-ict/
the role of Ict in teaching, learning & assessment
The integration of ICT can support a range of teaching, learning and assessment approaches that:
- enhance learning opportunities through access to a range of resources, stimulus materials and learning tools
- provide increased opportunities for student engagement and motivation
- equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills to use ICT to support 21st-century learning
- support the development of effective student research and evaluation skills
- promote critical and creative thinking skills
- increase teacher and student efficiency
- develop awareness of the public nature of online activity and related responsibilities
- increase opportunities to work collaboratively, locally, nationally and globally.
The development of ICT knowledge, understanding and skills in NSW syllabuses
NSW syllabuses provide opportunities for students to:
- locate, access and verify the integrity of data and information when investigating and researching
- gather and process information from a variety of sources, and identify new paths for inquiry
- generate ideas, plans and processes to create solutions
- represent and model ideas, information and thinking in a variety of ways
- apply understanding across a range of contexts
- use a range of tools effectively and appropriately to investigate, make decisions and solve problems
- manage and operate ICT ethically and appropriately to investigate, create and communicate
- develop confidence in the use of ICT
- evaluate interactions within a digital environment
- take ownership of their learning.
applying ict
"When planning, teachers may consider the application of a range of ICT tools and resources to support teaching, learning and assessment. Teachers will identify tools and resources for use by students based on specific learning needs, such as:
- multimedia creation tools, including cameras, microphones and audio editing programs
- programming tools
- game-based learning and game development opportunities
- online collaboration tools, including blogs and wikis
- web 2.0 and web 3.0 tools
- GPS, geo-tagging, geographic information systems
- simulations
- electronic portfolios
- productivity tools, including word processing, databases, spreadsheets, graphic editing
- interactive manipulatives, such as interactive geometry applications
- contextualised learning experiences, including robotics, 3D modelling, virtual learning environments (including field trips), web quests."
privacy issues to consider
Privacy Update 2: Student data & 3rd-party sites
There are a number of non-Departmental websites that support teaching and learning, such as Mathletics and Edmodo.
From time to time these websites require a student's personal information including their name, date of birth and class to be entered in order for them to use the resource.
Some of these websites make it clear parental permission should be obtained where the user is under 18. Irrespective of this, where a student's personal information is entered by a teacher, it may be held to be a disclosure within the meaning of NSW privacy law.
Principals are asked to remind staff they must obtain parental permission before a student's (under the age of 18) personal information is entered into a third-party website. If the parent declines to give their permission steps must be taken to identify an alternative education program for the student concerned.
For further information please email [email protected]
There are a number of non-Departmental websites that support teaching and learning, such as Mathletics and Edmodo.
From time to time these websites require a student's personal information including their name, date of birth and class to be entered in order for them to use the resource.
Some of these websites make it clear parental permission should be obtained where the user is under 18. Irrespective of this, where a student's personal information is entered by a teacher, it may be held to be a disclosure within the meaning of NSW privacy law.
Principals are asked to remind staff they must obtain parental permission before a student's (under the age of 18) personal information is entered into a third-party website. If the parent declines to give their permission steps must be taken to identify an alternative education program for the student concerned.
For further information please email [email protected]
ICT capability in english
"Literacy in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is fundamental to life in our modern technological society. To equip students to be literate life long learners and global citizens of the 21st century we must successfully integrate ICT into both the English curriculum and English pedagogical practice.
ICT is a valuable tool to enhance teaching and learning. For teachers ICT is a professional resource, a mode of classroom delivery, and a source of valid and valuable text types. For students, ICT provides opportunities to communicate more effectively and to develop literacy skills including skills in critical literacy. It is a valuable tool for researching, composing and responding, and viewing and representing in English.' ETA
ICT is a valuable tool to enhance teaching and learning. For teachers ICT is a professional resource, a mode of classroom delivery, and a source of valid and valuable text types. For students, ICT provides opportunities to communicate more effectively and to develop literacy skills including skills in critical literacy. It is a valuable tool for researching, composing and responding, and viewing and representing in English.' ETA
"The study of English enables students to develop and apply knowledge, understanding and skills of ICT in their composing, responding and presenting, and as part of the imaginative and critical thinking they undertake in English.
Students have the opportunity to become competent, discriminating and creative users of ICT as they learn to use ICT effectively and appropriately when investigating, creating and communicating ideas and information. Students will learn about the ethics of information communication through technology." http://syllabus.nesa.nsw.edu.au/support-materials/integrating-ict/
Students have the opportunity to become competent, discriminating and creative users of ICT as they learn to use ICT effectively and appropriately when investigating, creating and communicating ideas and information. Students will learn about the ethics of information communication through technology." http://syllabus.nesa.nsw.edu.au/support-materials/integrating-ict/
ICT capability in mathematics
Information and communication technology (ICT) includes digital technologies such as calculators, spreadsheets, dynamic geometry software, and computer algebra and graphing software. Students use ICT effectively and appropriately when investigating, creating and communicating ideas and information, including in representing mathematics in a variety of ways to aid understanding. ICT can be used by students to solve problems and to perform previously onerous tasks more readily. http://syllabus.nesa.nsw.edu.au/support-materials/integrating-ict/
ict capability in science
"Information and communication technology (ICT) can be used effectively and appropriately to access, create and communicate information and ideas, solve problems and work collaboratively. The Science K–10 (incorporating Science and Technology K–6) Syllabus provides students with opportunities to develop ICT capability when they develop design ideas and solutions, research science concepts and applications, investigate science phenomena, and communicate their scientific and technological understandings. In particular they learn to access information, collect, analyse and represent data, model and interpret concepts and relationships, and communicate scientific and technological ideas, processes and information. Digital technologies and aids, such as animations and simulations, provide opportunities to view phenomena and test predictions that cannot be investigated through practical experiences in the classroom, and may enhance students' understanding and engagement with science and technology." http://syllabus.nesa.nsw.edu.au/support-materials/integrating-ict/
ict capability in history
"Students develop ICT competence as they learn to use ICT effectively and appropriately when investigating, creating and communicating ideas and information at school, at home, at work and in their communities. Competence in ICT is most evident in historical skills associated with locating, processing and communicating historical information. This includes the use of information technologies to access a growing range of digitised online materials; spreadsheets and databases for analysing evidence and historical trends; digital technologies to create, publish and present their learning; communication technologies, for example wikis and blogs, to enhance students' analytical thinking capabilities in their study of history and online forums and videoconferencing to discuss and debate ideas."
http://syllabus.nesa.nsw.edu.au/support-materials/integrating-ict/
http://syllabus.nesa.nsw.edu.au/support-materials/integrating-ict/
difference between ict & digital technologies
digital literacy
"One of the foundation skills for the workforce in the 21st Century." https://www.literacyandnumeracy.gov.au/parents
Digital literacy involves knowing how to use a range of technologies to find information, solve problems or complete tasks. Digital literacy is also about knowing how to act safely and respectfully online.
It is important that all children and young people in Australia learn to become ‘digitally literate’ in a safe and supportive environment, engaging with the materials, data, systems, tools and equipment that are available in their schools and communities.
In order to drive children’s digital literacy in schools, Digital Technologies has been developed as one of the learning areas of the Australian Curriculum. Digital Technologies aims to ensure that all students from Foundation to Year 10 benefit from learning about and working with traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies. Digital Technologies focuses on developing knowledge and understanding of data and digital systems and the processes and production skills involved in using digital technology.
Through the Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies learning area, students will have the opportunity to learn coding or programming skills and to develop the general capability of information and communication technology (ICT) competence. Coding or programming is a list of step-by-step instructions to get computers to do what you want them to do, to complete a task or solve a problem. Coding is what makes it possible for us to create computer software, apps and websites. ICT competence is knowing how to use traditional computers like desktop PCs and laptops, with a focus on practical skills in particular types of software.
https://www.literacyandnumeracy.gov.au/digital-literacy-activities
Digital literacy involves knowing how to use a range of technologies to find information, solve problems or complete tasks. Digital literacy is also about knowing how to act safely and respectfully online.
It is important that all children and young people in Australia learn to become ‘digitally literate’ in a safe and supportive environment, engaging with the materials, data, systems, tools and equipment that are available in their schools and communities.
In order to drive children’s digital literacy in schools, Digital Technologies has been developed as one of the learning areas of the Australian Curriculum. Digital Technologies aims to ensure that all students from Foundation to Year 10 benefit from learning about and working with traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies. Digital Technologies focuses on developing knowledge and understanding of data and digital systems and the processes and production skills involved in using digital technology.
Through the Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies learning area, students will have the opportunity to learn coding or programming skills and to develop the general capability of information and communication technology (ICT) competence. Coding or programming is a list of step-by-step instructions to get computers to do what you want them to do, to complete a task or solve a problem. Coding is what makes it possible for us to create computer software, apps and websites. ICT competence is knowing how to use traditional computers like desktop PCs and laptops, with a focus on practical skills in particular types of software.
https://www.literacyandnumeracy.gov.au/digital-literacy-activities