ICT

ICT Key Stage 3

Importance of ICT:
  • ICT capability is fundamental to participation in and engagement with today’s society
  • ICT enables rapid access to ideas and experiences from a wide range of people, communities and cultures
1. Key Concepts
1.1 1.1 Capability

Activity 17: Tourism and Sustainability
a:Using a range of ICT tools in a purposeful way to tackle questions, solve problems and create ideas and solutions of value.
b: Exploring and using new ICT tools as they become available.
c: Applying ICT learning in a range of contexts and in other areas of learning, work and life.
1.2 Communicating and Collaborating
a: exploring the way ICT can be used to communicate... and share ideas on a global scale...
1.4 Impact of technology
a: exploring how ICT changes the way we live our lives and has significant social, ethical and cultural implications
b: recognising issues of risk, safety and responsibility surrounding the use of ICT
1.5 Critical evaluation

Activity 1: Exploring Kenya

Activity 17: Tourism and Sustainability
a: recognise that information must not be taken at face value, but must be analysed and evaluated to take account of its purpose, author, currency and context
b: reviewing and reflecting critically on what they and others produce using ICT
2. Key Processes
2.1 Finding Information

Activity 17: Tourism and Sustainability

Activity 18: Energy and Global Warming
d: analyse and evaluate information, judging its value, accuracy, plausibility and bias
2.2 Developing ideas

Activity 17: Tourism and Sustainability

Activity 18: Energy and Global Warming
f: bring together, draft and refine information, including through the combination of text, sound and image
2.3 Communicating information
Activity 18: Energy and Global Warming
a: use a range of ICT tools to present information in forms that re fit for purpose, meet the audience needs and suit the content
3. Range and Content
a: Use of a range of information, with different structures, characteristics and purposes, and evaluation of how it matches re4quirements and its fitness for purpose
4. Curriculum opportunities
b: work creatively and collaboratively
f: use ICT in other subjects and areas of learning with contexts that are relevant and interesting to them

ICT Key Stage 4

1. Key Concepts – as KS3
2. Key Processes
2.1 Finding Information
c: select appropriate information from a wide range of sources, showing discrimination in their choices and judging the value, accuracy, plausibility and bias of information
2.3 Communicating information
a: use a range of ICT tools and media to share, exchange and present information effectively in a variety of contexts
3. Range and Content
d: The impact of ICT on individualsm communities and society, considering the social, economic, legal and ethical implications of access to and use of ICT
4. Curriculum opportunities
b: work creatively and collaboratively, taking different roles in teams
e: apply ICT to real world situations... carrying out a range of tasks and enquiries
h: use ICT in other subjects with contexts that are relevant and interesting t them