ELA 6 -ICT

Retrieved From: http://activated.act.edu.au/ectl/resources/ECTL_Framework.pdf 'This Essential Learning Achievement focuses on students learning how to use a range of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to support their thinking, learning and communication. ICT broadly encompass digital communications systems, including computers, associated peripheral devices and software, which are commonly linked together in networks. They are an important feature of life and work in contemporary society and are continually evolving. Using ICT effectively enables students to conduct inquiries and create knowledge, to communicate and collaborate with others in local and global contexts and to interpret, analyse, organise, transform and manage information in ways that enhance their learning, understanding and creativity. Using ICT effectively involves understanding the function and range of available technologies and then selecting, combining and using the appropriate hardware, software and digital systems for the intended purpose and audience. Underpinning the capacity to perform these actions are technical skills in the use of applications, such as word processing, publishing, spreadsheets, databases, multimedia, email, interactive software, intranet, the Internet, search engines, web logs and wikis.'