Information and Technology

Information technology is the use of tools and electronic devices that allow us to create, explore, transform, and express information.

Value of Integrating Information Technology

As Canada moves from an agricultural and industrial economy to the information age, students must develop new knowledge, skills, and attitudes. The information technology curriculum has been developed to be integrated into all new curricula to ensure that students know how to use computers and gain the technological literacy demanded in the workplace.

In learning about information technology, students acquire skills in information analysis and evaluation, word processing, database analysis, information management, graphics, and multimedia applications. Students also identify ethical and social issues arising from the use of information technology.

With information technology integrated into the curriculum, students will be expected to:

• demonstrate basic skills in handling information technology tools
• demonstrate an understanding of information technology structure and concepts
• relate information technology to personal and social issues
• define a problem and develop strategies for solving it
• apply search criteria to locate or send information
• transfer information from external sources
• evaluate information for authenticity and relevance
• arrange information in different patterns to create new meaning
• modify, revise, and transform information
• apply principles of design affecting appearance of information
• deliver a message to an audience using information technology

• Foundations - the basic physical skills, and intellectual and personal understandings required to use information technology, as well as self-directed learning skills and socially responsible attitudes
• Explorations - defining a problem to establish a clear purpose for search strategies and retrieval skills
• Transformations - filtering, organizing, and processing information
• Expressions - designing, integrating, and presenting a message using text, audio and visual information, and message delivery

This information is derived from the draft Information Technology Curriculum K to 12 curriculum.

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Revised: July 04, 1996

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