ICT Fluency and High Schools A Workshop Summary (2006) / Chapter Skim
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Yet although there have been numerous calls for linkages that enable ICT competencies acquired in one domain to benefit another, this goal has largely remained unrealized. In particular, while technology skills and applications at work could be greatly enhanced by earlier complementary learning at school -- particularly in K12 education, a formative and influential stage in a person's life -- little progress has been made on such linkages.
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to identify and analyze the most promising current efforts to provide in high schools many of the ICT competencies required not only in the workplace but also in people's day-to-day functioning as citizens; and (3) to consider what information or research is needed to inform efforts to help high school students develop ICT fluency.
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Information Technology Skills 1. Setting up a personal computer.
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Specifically, they were asked to · Discuss whether developments in ICT, the workplace, education, and society suggest that revisions -- with a focus on expectations for high school students -- to the initial framework of Being Fluent are needed. · Reconsider the current curricular framework, both in terms of how it can be made appropriate for outlining high school graduation outcomes and how advances in ICT since 1999 can be taken into account.
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4. What further information or research is needed to reform efforts to help high school students develop competencies associated with all three capabilities of the ICT fluency framework, in the context of existing high school curricula?
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The next five chapters of this report summarize those five sessions. The questions that begin each chapter capture the major themes that were discussed during the session Significant work on ICT education remains to be done, especially in high schools.
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