Consumer and financial literacy: Information and Communication Technology Capability

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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.

     

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Typically, by the end of Year 6, students:

Understand computer mediated communications

understand that particular forms of computer mediated communications and tools are suited to synchronous or asynchronous and one-to-one or group communications

Identify the impacts of ICT in society

explain the main uses of ICT at school, home and in the local community, and recognise its potential positive and negative impacts on their lives

Typically, by the end of Year 6, students:

Select and evaluate data and information

assess the suitability of data or information using a range of appropriate given criteria

Typically, by the end of Year 6, students:

Recognise intellectual property

identify the legal obligations regarding the ownership and use of digital products and apply some referencing conventions

Apply digital information security practices

independently apply strategies for determining and protecting the security of digital information and assess the risks associated with online environments

Apply personal security protocols

identify the risks to identity, privacy and emotional safety for themselves when using ICT and apply generally accepted social protocols when sharing information in online environments, taking into account different social and cultural contexts

Define and plan information searches

Use a range of ICT to identify and represent patterns in sets of information and to pose questions to guide searching for, or generating, further information

Locate, generate and access data and information

locate, retrieve or generate information using search engines and simple search functions and classify information in meaningful ways

Generate ideas, plans and processes

use ICT effectively to record ideas, represent thinking and plan solutions

Generate solutions to challenges and learning area tasks

independently or collaboratively create and modify digital solutions, creative outputs or data representation/ transformation for particular audiences and purposes

Collaborate, share and exchange

select and use appropriate ICT tools safely to share and exchange information and to safely collaborate with others