(428) INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SCHOOLS AND IN VICTORIAN AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM DOCUMENTS

摘要

Teachers, the general public and media, departments of Education and curriculum documents use theterms 'ICT' (Information & Communication Technologies), 'digital technologies', 'computers ineducation', and so forth in many ways and with very different meanings with respect to schooleducation. This leads to much confusion and a lack of clarity for all concerned. This has led to acomplex landscape that challenges many teachers and teacher education students, as the same termis used to mean a range of different things, while different terms sometimes refer to the same thing.This paper will first seek to explore and clarify the terminology through the range of ways thattechnologies are used in schools by teachers to support their students' learning, including as a way topresent content, for assessment, for administration, for simulations and visualisations of concepts, andin ways that require students to use technologies so as to develop their understanding. The paper willthen explore and expand upon where and how Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) andthe new subject 'Digital Technologies' appear in the Victorian state curriculum and in Australiancurriculum documents and what they entail.