TECHNOLOGY

The investment in information technology by boards of trustees offers scope for innovation in teaching.  Parents, students and teachers value the use of information technology, and teachers agree that there is considerable educational benefit to be gained from IT.  The challenge that lies ahead is the need for schools to embrace a formal planning process to ensure that IT becomes an integrated part of curriculum delivery, and ultimately contributes to student learning outcomes.

COMPUTING

Information technology challenges the capabilities of students and shifts the emphasis away from simply giving and receiving information.  Instead students are encouraged to access relevant information and learn how to solve problems, ask questions, think critically and communicate ideas.  Students can also connect with learning environments where their own ethnic and language characteristics are more dominant.  Interactive media allows students to see and operate on phenomena represented in graphics, pictures, video and sounds.  They are thus able to extend their knowledge boundaries and increase their understanding.

• bridge the gap between in-school and our-of-school learning;
• encourage the development of higher order skills and knowledge;
• increase student control and motivation by providing students with the opportunity to be directly involved in the decision making process;
• encourage students to strategic approaches to problem and to follow these strategies through.

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