Aims and purposes of ICT
ICT offers opportunities for pupils to:

• prepare themselves for participation in a rapidly changing world where activities are increasingly transformed by access to ICT;
• develop initiative and independent learning skills;
• gain rapid access to ideas and experiences from a wide range of people, communities and cultures.

In ICT, pupils acquire and apply knowledge and understanding of:

• the quality and reliability of information and how to access and combine increasing amounts of information;
• a range of increasingly complex tasks using a variety of ICT tools;
• how ICT can help their work in other subjects, developing their ability to judge when and how to use ICT and where it has limitations;
• the application and use of ICT in the outside world.

These are acquired through four aspects of ICT study:

• finding things out;
• developing ideas and making things happen;
• exchanging and sharing information;
• reviewing, modifying and evaluating work as it progresses.