Information Technology Key Skills

Pupils can:

• discuss the implications of ICT and its value in the outside world
• gather information from a range of printed and electronic reading materials
• become adept at re-drafting written composition on the screen
• generate and discuss ideas and communicate them in a variety of ways using ICT
• choose appropriate styles of graphical representation to present information, and make valid interpretations from them
• become aware of some of the implications of inaccurate data entry and its effects on the validity and reliability of results
• discover the flexibility and facilities of ICT by investigating different methods of presentation of data or text
• use skills of numeracy to sort and classify information in the most effective manner
• consider carefully the framing of questions when undertaking work involving questionnaires or when interrogating a database