This element involves students understanding and using appropriate ICT to communicate with others.
Students use ICT to share ideas and information to collaboratively construct knowledge and digital solutions. They develop an understanding of the context when communicating using ICT, including a sense of the audience, the form of communication, the techniques used and the characteristics of the users and the technologies. In developing and acting with ICT capability, students:
- collaborate, share and exchange
- understand computer-mediated communications.
Level 5
Typically by the end of Year 8, students:
Collaborate share and exchange
select and use appropriate ICT tools safely to lead groups in sharing and exchanging information, and taking part in online projects or active collaborations with appropriate global audiences
Understand computer mediated communications
understand that there are various methods of collaboration through computer mediated communications that vary in form and control