Curriculum

Information Communication and Technologies is advancing everyday in society, it is growing faster by the minute. The children within the classroom need to be aware of information on technology in order to be able to be literate in future prospects regarding education. This is why Education Queensland has used ICT'S as a part of their "cross curriculum" priority in their Essential Learning’s Document. The reasons for this are, the idea is to embed ICT as learning tool in any learning activity as a natural environment. By enforcing this students have a higher assurance of gaining literate knowledge’s within the technological field for present and future developments. Using ICT’s allows students to think, Learn, Collaborate and Support information’s by experimentation. This document can be downloaded as a pdf file from the following linkwww.qsa.edu.au./981.html under the Teachings and Learnings of Technology.

The Essential Learning document for Technology provides learning functions to the students by following set criteria this includes: Experimentation, Construction, Organisation, Evaluation and Reflection. Teachers are able to construct a lesson plan that enforces all the functional expectations of ICT’s with any of the KLA areas (known as the Key Learning Areas). By using the KLA area of Mathematics both curriculum priorities are easily constructed within an essential learning activity taught in the classroom. An example of this is students Learning Tessellation in a Mathematics Lesson in the Curriculum guidelines for Mathematics "Space" is to be taught for geometric properties in the daily enviroment for 2D shapes. The teacher //is able to create// an interesting technology as an effective learning tool. By following curriculum guideline known as the “ways of working”, the essential learning guide, the teacher is able to embed both KLA areas into the one lesson. The Technology Essential Learning’s covers
 * knowledge and understanding,
 * investigating and Designing
 * Producing
 * Evaluating and reflecting.

The Mathematics KLA also covers similar functions such as Both KLA areas cover similar concepts that need to be taught within the curriculum guide for Education Queensland. This allows both KLA areas are able to be embedded in the one lesson to provide effective learning of one lesson. The essential learnings document can be located on the following link [], this link provides "ways of working" documents for P-9 educational guidelines for teaching each of KLA areas.
 * knowledge and understanding
 * Thinking and reasoning,
 * Communicating and reflecting.