Deputy Principal (Kelly Anderson)
SFLL - ICT Capability
In the Western Australian Curriculum, students develop ICT capability as they 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. Students develop capability in using ICT for tasks associated with information access and management, information creation and presentation, problem solving, decision making, communication, creative expression, and empirical reasoning. This includes conducting research, creating multimedia information products, analysing data, designing solutions to problems, controlling processes and devices, and supporting computation while working independently and in collaboration with others.
Learning areas provide the content and contexts within which students develop and apply the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that comprise ICT capability.
The ICT capability learning continuum is organised into five interrelated elements:
Applying social and ethical protocols and practices when using ICT
Students:
• recognise intellectual property
• apply digital information security practices
• apply personal security protocols
• identify the impacts of ICT in society.
Investigating with ICT
Students:
• define and plan information searches
• locate, generate and access data and information
• select and evaluate data and information.
Creating with ICT
Students:
• generate ideas, plans and processes
• generate solutions to challenges and learning area tasks.
Communicating with ICT
Students:
• collaborate, share and exchange
• understand computer mediated communications.
Managing and operating ICT
Students:
• select and use hardware and software
• understand ICT systems
• manage digital data.
Reflection Challenge
How do you use ICTs in the context of your teaching?
Are you providing opportunities for students to engage with current technologies and build their capacity around their use and management of these ICTs?
Do you need some training around ICTs yourself, in order to better utilise these and assist students more effectively in their own usage?
Technology is evolving at an incredible pace. We need to prepare our students for the use of these technologies in the world of work. If you want to purchase some equipment or software that will enhance our students’ understanding of these new technologies, please speak to your line manager about how to apply for funding via our Finance Committee. You must be able to explain how the ICTs will be used to enhance the learning for students – see the Application for Funding attached to this article.