Introducing Literacy with ICT Across the Curriculum

Section 1: Introducing Literacy with ICT Across the Curriculum

This section talks about the background and contextual frameworks for this initiative. Technology as a foundation skill for students of the 21st century to develop multiple literacies that will allow them to respond to the changing ideas, attitudes, and technologies as their communities and their world evolve. Information and communication technologies include computers, laptops, digital cameras, video cameras, digital microscopes, scanners, cell phones, electronic games, digital audio devices, global positioning systems, electronic whiteboards, the internet, etc. Students using ICT support their critical and creative thinking about textual, numerical, visual, and aural information as citizens of the global community. They develop this literacy through a process of inquiry across the curriculum as they plan and question, gather and make sense, produce to show understanding, communicate, and reflect on their learning. The focus is on what students can do, learners of any age are able to find themselves on the continuum, from novices to experts, from pre-k students to senior students and beyond.
The models used:
-Bloom’s cognitive taxonomy and Krathwhol’s affective taxonomy
- Inquiry model (scientific inquiry/problem-solving/managing information, et cetera)
-Pearson and Gallagher’s model of explicit instruction, which portrays the gradual release of responsibility from teacher to student.