Information and Communications Technology

Staff: Mr G Featherstone, Mr A McDonald-Bowyer, Mr R Vallack

Key Stage 3 - Key Concepts

Capability

- Using a range of ICT tools in a purposeful way to tackle questions, solve problems and create ideas and solutions of value - Exploring and using new ICT tools as they become available.
- Applying ICT learning in a range of contexts and in other areas of learning, work and life.

Communication and collaboration

- Exploring the ways that ICT can be used to communicate, collaborate and share ideas on a global scale, allowing people to work together in new ways and changing the way in which knowledge is created.

Exploring ideas and manipulating information

- Solving problems creatively by using ICT to explore ideas and try alternatives.
- Using ICT to model different scenarios, allowing people to identify patterns and test hypotheses.
- Manipulating information and processing large quantities of data efficiently.

Impact of technology

- Exploring how ICT changes the way we live our lives and has significant social, ethical and cultural implications.
- Recognising issues of risk, safety and responsibility surrounding the use of ICT.

Critical evaluation

- Recognising that information must not be taken at face value, but must be analysed and evaluated to take account of its purpose, author, currency and context.
- Reviewing and reflecting critically on what they and others produce using ICT.

Further information

National Curriculum in Action - ICT

ICT National Curriculum Online

Key Stage 4 - Certificate in Digital Applications (CiDA) - equivalent to 2 GCSEs

CiDA is one half of the full Diploma in Digital Applications (DIDA)

Course Units

* Using ICT
* Multimedia
* Graphics
* ICT in Enterprise

Further information

DiDA