Key
Technology Standards 2
By
Kara
Smith Garvin Tynes
Primary School
ICT’s
can be utilized in every subject area. Here are three standards that can be
added to the curriculum to integrate ICT’s.
1. Cultural Diversity
Exposure:
Our social subjects (Social Studies, Religious Studies, Family Life and Health
Education as well as Science) provide an excellent platform to diversify
students’ knowledge of our world. Every topic is an opportunity to look at our
world from a compare/contrast view. This sensitizes students to the world and
inspires them to open their minds and creates a thirst for knowledge. Discuss
marine animals in The Bahamas and then display underwater life in other areas
of the world. Explain worship as we see
it in our communities and then expose clips of people around the world
worshipping in different ways. Compare city maps around world. There are so
many ways to use ICT’s to expose cultural diversity and integrate it into the
social areas of our curriculum.
2. Introduction to Email:
It’s
time to encourage a professional use of ICT’s from an earlier start in
education. Once a student is capable of creating a piece of writing, they have
the capacity to compose emails. This is would be a welcomed integration into
areas such as Creative Writing and Reading Comprehension Assignments.
3. Assessment and
Evaluation: It’s
important in this digital age to create different types of assessment for our
students. In particular, assignments that will help them to become digital
citizens, and prepare them for a technological world. We can make use of
applications that help create online quizzes, research responsibility and
preparations of presentations.
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