Why Do We Need ICT as Part of the Curriculum?

Information and Communication Technology is needed to enable students to work collaboratively in all learning areas in school. It is essential that students have the capabilities such as learning to make the most of the digital technologies and adapting to new ways of doing things in order to use information and communication technology effectively and appropriately to create, communicate and access information.

Students also need to have the knowledge and skills to make use of information and communication technology to enable them to participate in a knowledge based economy and to be empowered within a technologically sophisticated society in their lives beyond school.

Online educational games :
Ladybird counting
http://www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/gordon/Count%20&%20Order.swf

Initial sounds with Lecky
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html#count-with-lecky7b

Number balloons
http://www.iboard.co.uk/iwb/Number-Balloons-572

Teddy numbers
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/teddy-numbers

Reference: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (n.d.). Information and Technology (ICT) capability. Retrieved 15 March 2013 from http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/GeneralCapabilities/Information-and-Communication-Technology-capability/Introduction/Introduction

                                    
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