I've put the text of the ICT page from the PYP section of the ecolint.ch web site, (in case you've lost your password, and can't see the original...)
Information and Communication Technologies
The British National Curriculum outlines the aims and purposes of teaching ICT in the primary years as offering opportunities for children to:
- develop IT capability, including their knowledge and understanding of the importance of information and of how to select and prepare it;
- develop their skills in using hardware and software to manipulate information in their processes of problem solving, recording and expressive work;
- develop their ability to apply their IT capability and ICT to support their use of language and communication, and their learning in other areas;
- explore their attitudes towards ICT, its value for themselves, others and society, and their awareness of its advantages and limitations.
Similarly, after a long process of consultation with ICT educators around the world, new Standards were unveiled this summer at the NECC, the National Educational Computing Conference in Atlanta (USA). Ten years after the original NETS were written, the new standards focus on
- creativity and innovation;
- communication and collaboration;
- research and information fluency;
- critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making;
- digital citizenship;
- technology operations and concepts
While we do not follow any specific national or state program of study in ICT at Campus des Nations, we do support and encourage the philosophies and standards described above. We want to teach our students the skills, attitudes and dispositions necessary for fluent, principled and creative use of the information and communication technologies they have at their disposal now, and we want to develop in their ability to grow along with ICT in their future.
Information about the the British National Curriculum is available online.
A pdf file of the new standards is available at the ISTE web site.
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