The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 to 12: Program Planning and Assessment, 2000,
provides essential information on aspects of policy relating to (1) program planning,
and (2) the assessment, evaluation and reporting of student achievement.
This informal checklist is from the document.
The Role of Technology in the Curriculum
- Information literacy is the ability to access, select, gather, critically evaluate, create,
and communicate information, and to use the information obtained to solve
problems and make decisions. In preparation for further education, employment,
citizenship and lifelong learning, students must be capable of deriving meaning
from information by using a wide variety of information literacy skills.
- As part of their training in computer and information literacy, students should
become familiar with a range of available software programs, simulations,
multimedia resources, databases and computer-assisted learning modules.
- Students will also be expected to use software applications that help them
develop general skills in such areas as writing, problem-solving, research and
communication.
- It is important that students learn to critically evaluate the accuracy, validity,
currency, comprehensiveness and depth of the information they access using
information technology, particularly the Internet.
- In general, teachers must try to ensure that students acquire the knowledge, skills
and attitudes that will allow them to use computer and information technology
safely, effectively, confidently and ethically.
- As the technology capable of enhancing student learning becomes available,
teachers should, within a reasonable period of time, incorporate that technology
into their planning of instruction and learning activities in individual disciplines
and, collaboratively, across disciplines.
- Effective school library programs can also help to promote the development of
information literacy skills among all students by supporting and coordinating the
collaborative planning and implementation of reading programs, inquiry and
research tasks and independent study.
(Source: The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 to 12: Program Planning and Assessment, 2000)