Using Information and Communications Technology across the curriculum 

Information and Communications Technology across the curriculum has the potential to transform and enrich children’s learning experiences and environments. It can empower children, develop self-esteem and promote positive attitudes to learning. Additionally, the creative use of ICT has the potential to improve children’ thinking skills, providing them with opportunities to become independent, self-motivated and flexible learners. Children will develop the skills of Using ICT by engaging in meaningful research and purposeful activities set in relevant contexts. They will use ICT to handle and communicate information, solve problems, pose questions and take risks. They will process, present and exchange their ideas and translate their thinking into creative outcomes that show an awareness of audience and purpose. They will also use ICT to collaborate within and beyond the classroom, to share and exchange their work and to exhibit and showcase their learning. Across the curriculum, at a level appropriate to their ability, children will develop their ICT skills to:

Explore

Children will be enabled to:

• access and manage data and information;
• research, select, process and interpret information;
• investigate, make predictions and solve problems through interaction with digital tools;
• understand how to keep safe and display acceptable online behaviour.

Express

Children will be enabled to:

• create, develop, present and publish ideas and information using a range of digital media;
• create information and multimedia products using a range of assets.

Exchange

Children will be enabled to:

• communicate using a range of contemporary methods and tools;
• share, collaborate, exchange and develop ideas digitally

Evaluate

Children will be enabled to:

• talk about, review and make improvements to work, reflecting on the process and outcome;
• consider the sources and resources used.

Exhibit

Children will be enabled to:

• manage and present their stored work;
• showcase their learning across the curriculum.