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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 Year 4, students:
Understand computer mediated communications
understand that computer mediated communications are directed to an audience for a purpose
Identify the impacts of ICT in society
identify the value and role of ICT use at home and school
Typically, by the end of Year 4, students:
Select and evaluate data and information
explain why located data or information was selected
Typically, by the end of Year 4, students:
Recognise intellectual property
acknowledge when they use digital products created by someone else, and start to indicate the source
Apply digital information security practices
independently apply standard guidelines and techniques for particular digital systems to secure digital information
Apply personal security protocols
apply standard guidelines and take action to avoid the common dangers to personal security when using ICT and apply appropriate basic social protocols when using ICT to communicate with unknown audiences
Define and plan information searches
Use ICT to plan an information search or generation of information, recognising some pattern within the information
Locate, generate and access data and information
locate, retrieve or generate information from a range of digital sources
Generate ideas, plans and processes
use ICT to generate ideas and plan solutions
Generate solutions to challenges and learning area tasks
create and modify simple digital solutions, creative outputs or data representation/ transformation for particular purposes
Collaborate, share and exchange
use appropriate ICT tools safely to share and exchange information with appropriate known audiences