Aims and purposes of ICT
ICT offers opportunities for pupils to:
- prepare themselves for participation in a rapidly changing world where activities are
increasingly transformed by access to ICT;
- develop initiative and independent learning skills;
- gain rapid access to ideas and experiences from a wide range of people, communities
and cultures.
Content of ICT at key stage 3
In ICT, pupils acquire and apply knowledge and understanding of:
- the quality and reliability of information and how to access and combine increasing
amounts of information;
- a range of increasingly complex tasks using a variety of ICT tools;
- how ICT can help their work in other subjects, developing their ability to judge when
and how to use ICT and where it has limitations;
- the application and use of ICT in the outside world.
These are acquired through four aspects of ICT study:
- finding things out;
- developing ideas and making things happen;
- exchanging and sharing information;
- reviewing, modifying and evaluating work as it progresses.
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