Reservoir West Primary School

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

TECHNOLOGY (ICT)

RESPONSIBILITY: Mrs Laureen Adderley

The school provides:

• Weekly ICT lessons
• Networked, internet-able workstations in all learning areas
• Interactive whiteboards
• Fixed data projectors and screens in learning areas
• Class set of notebook computers in ICT Centre

The knowledge, skills and behaviours in this domain enable students to use ICT to access, process, manage and present information; model and control events; construct new understandings; and communicate with others. Students use ICT and strategies to monitor learning patterns, to process data to create solutions and information products that demonstrate understanding, and to share their work with others in ethical, legal and respectful ways. Standards in the Information and Communications Technology domain are organised in three dimensions.

ICT for Visualising Thinking

In this dimension students use ICT tools to assist their thinking processes and reflect on the thinking strategies they use to develop understanding. ICT provides a rich and flexible learner-centred environment in which students can experiment and take risks when developing new understanding. Its extensive capabilities allow students, by visually coding and representing their thinking, to clarify thoughts, and to identify patterns and form relationships between new and existing knowledge

ICT for Creating

This dimension focuses on students using ICT tools for creating solutions to problems and for creating information products. Through the selection and application of appropriate equipment, techniques and procedures, students learn to:

• process data and information to create solutions to problems and information products that demonstrate their knowledge and understandings of the concepts, issues, relationships and processes related to all areas of the curriculum
• manage their files to secure their contents and enable efficient retrieval
• plan and monitor the progress of extended tasks.

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ICT for Communicating

This dimension focuses on students using ICT to:

• present ideas and understandings to audiences
• communicate with known and unknown audiences
• support knowledge-building among teams.

Students use ICT to support oral presentations to live local audiences and to present ideas and understandings to unknown, remote audiences. They use ICT to communicate with others, both known and unknown, with the purpose of seeking and discussing alternative views, acquiring expert opinions, sharing knowledge and expressing ideas. Students also locate information from a range of online and multimedia resources to support their own learning.

ICT supports knowledge-building among teams and enables team members to collaborate, enquire, interact and integrate prior knowledge with new understanding.

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VICTORIAN ESSENTIAL LEARNING STANDARDS

This table outlines where a student is expected to be at a particular time in his/her educational journey. Most students will achieve the expected standard. Some will achieve to a higher standard. Some may not reach the expected standard.

Click to view a description of the behaviours that a student should display at each progression point in ICT for Levels 2, 3 and 4.

A student’s achievement is reported to parents at June and December. Click for an explanation of the Report Card.

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