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The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability supports students to acquire the knowledge, dispositions and skills to use ICT effectively, appropriately and safely in a range of real-world consumer and financial contexts. The ICT Capability contributes to the development of the dimensions of consumer and financial literacy as shown in the diagram below.
Approximate proportion of the dimensions addressed by Information and Communication Technology Capability
Through the ICT Capability, students learn to question the validity and reliability of information sources and develop an understanding of the practices that mislead or threaten the integrity of information in the online environment such as advertising, scams and fraud. The ICT Capability supports students to develop safe, ethical and responsible behaviours in online and digital consumer and financial contexts. Students develop enterprising skills by using ICT to locate information; generate ideas, plans and processes; design solutions to real-world problems; and to share and collaborate. The ICT Capability supports students to work in consumer and financial contexts with confidence, care and consideration – understanding its possibilities, limitations and impacts on individuals, groups and communities.
The managing and operating ICT element of this capability has not been included in the mapping.
Moneysmart for teachers and Tax, Super and You provide a number of interdisciplinary units and interactive activities that include aspects of the ICT Capability.
Typically, by the end of Foundation Year, students:
Understand computer mediated communications
understand that messages are recorded, viewed or sent in computer mediated communications for others to receive
Identify the impacts of ICT in society
identify how they use ICT in multiple ways on multiple devices
Typically, by the end of Foundation Year, students:
Select and evaluate data and information
explain how located data or information was used
Typically, by the end of Foundation Year, students:
Recognise intellectual property
recognise ownership over their own digital work
Apply digital information security practices
follow class rules about using digital information
Apply personal security protocols
follow class rules when sharing personal information with known audiences and demonstrate an awareness of applying social protocols when using ICT to communicate
Define and plan information searches
use ICT to identify where information is located
Locate, generate and access data and information
use ICT to identify where information is located
Generate ideas, plans and processes
use ICT to follow or contribute to a simple plan for a solution
Generate solutions to challenges and learning area tasks
use ICT as a creative tool to generate simple solutions, modifications or data representations for personal or school purposes
Collaborate, share and exchange
use purposefully selected ICT tools safely to view information shared by trusted adults