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Your child's ICT learning
Information and communication technology (ICT) is such an integral part of our lives that it is embedded right across the curriculum. Crispin Andrews looks at its importance
Why ICT?
Growing up in an ICT-rich environment means that children need to have opportunity to experience and develop skills in its use that will help them make the most of adult life. Contrary to what we often think, ICT isn't simply about computers but includes anything that requires the input of instructions to produce specific outcomes. That's your answering machine, mobile phone, DVD player, washing machine, traffic lights and speed camera.
ICT is incorporated into practically every lesson your child learns at school, with the exception of physical education, and in secondary school children will typically have ICT classes that are lessons in their own right. More...
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What is ICT?
ICT stands for Information Communication Technology and is an important part of your child's curriculum. As the modern world is evolving, technology is developing at a rapid pace. It is crucial for our children to gain positive experiences of ICT to prepare them for a technology-driven future.
ICT does not simply mean computer studies. In fact, it involves a wide variety of resources, from Interactive Whiteboards, to digital cameras, from recording devices to mobile phones. In our ICT section you will find articles and features on all the different forms of ICT and how they can support and extend your child's learning.
ICT features
ICT in Key Stage 1
Your child will learn about the different sources of and forms information comes in and to work with text, image and sound. Learning about how everyday devices respond to signals and instructions and making choices to determine different outcomes is also central to learning
Learning about ICT
Information and communication technology (ICT) is such an integral part of our lives that it is embedded right across the curriculum.
ICT in the Foundation Stage
During the early years of learning your child will be encouraged to find out and identify the uses of everyday technology, such as office equipment, music keyboards, alarms and programmable toys.
Internet blogging
Weblogs offer children a new way to read, write and express their views. They act as an online journal, and encourage children to think about and comment on the things that matter to them
ICT in Key Stage 2
Your child will be quite skilled in using ICT to organise and classify information, and in making use of text, tables, images and sound to present work. He or she will also be taught to use a sequence of instructions to control devices to achieve specific outcomes.
ICT in Key Stage 3
They will be taught to understand how ICT devices with sensors can be used to monitor and measure external events and to be critical about their work in order to make improvements