Curriculum+Connections


 * CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS **

Curriculum connections assist teachers with implementing integrated curriculum within individual classrooms and across the entire school if that is the aim. Teachers can develop efficient planning structures that support and facilitate their work and be able to shift from short term to long term whilst constructing there planning schedule. In the area of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) the key learning areas for grades one to three are developed like this: v Creating with ICTs – Students need to have developed the understanding, whilst demonstrating their creativity, thinking, learning, collaboration and communication. v Communications with ICTs – Students experiments with and use ICTs across key learning areas to collaborate and enhance communication in different contexts for an identified audience. These are a few things to name that incorporate technology into the lives of young students and what they should be accomplishing in this time from grade one to grade three. For further information for higher grades or other subjects please follow this link and it will explain everything you need to know: []
 * Ø Represent ideas, information and thinking
 * Ø Develop imaginative responses
 * Ø Record their evidence of learning
 * Ø Reflect on their use of ICTs as a creative tool and identify how their response could be improved.
 * Ø Share and communicate ideas, understands and responses
 * Ø Consider how ICTs can be used to communicate different meanings in different situations
 * Ø Apply basic communication conventions
 * Ø Apply digital media to communicate
 * Ø Recognise some elements of image and identity in communication
 * Ø <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Reflect on their use of ICTs and identify ways to improve their collaboration and enhance their communication