ACCE position paper on ICT in the Australian curriculum

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02 May 2011The Australian Curriculum as presented by ACARA, acknowledges the importance of ICT as both a general capability (GC) and as a learning area in partnership with Design and Technology (the ‘Technologies’).

Currently there is no published curriculum documentation for ICT Competence as a GC. Rather its place in the Australian Curriculum is recognised within each of the four published learning areas through embedding in content descriptions and/or achievement standards.  As a learning area, work is just beginning on determining ICT’s ‘conceptual’ home and its content.

This paper discusses four key concerns about this current situation and proposes and justifies a solution whereby ICT would be a learning area in its own right, either within the framework of the Technologies or as a new learning area. Structurally this learning area would document the student learning expectations and standards for ICT as a GC as well as a discipline.

Publication typeDiscussion paper
Publisher TypeNon government organisation
CoverageAustralia
Permanent URLhttp://apo.org.au/node/24679
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