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ICT Policy Notes

The document outlines an ICT policy framework for schools including a policy, development plan, and ICT handbook. The policy sets out the school's beliefs about ICT, its vision for ICT, and principles to guide decisions. The development plan describes stages to achieve the vision. The ICT handbook provides operational details to implement the development plan. The policy also outlines core beliefs that ICT fluency is important, ICT deserves a role in the curriculum, and effective ICT can improve student work and attainment.

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ICT Policy Notes

The document outlines an ICT policy framework for schools including a policy, development plan, and ICT handbook. The policy sets out the school's beliefs about ICT, its vision for ICT, and principles to guide decisions. The development plan describes stages to achieve the vision. The ICT handbook provides operational details to implement the development plan. The policy also outlines core beliefs that ICT fluency is important, ICT deserves a role in the curriculum, and effective ICT can improve student work and attainment.

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Information and Communications Technology Policy

A framework for an ICT policy, and its relationship to a development plan and an ICT handbook

A policy is a document that sets out a school's beliefs about the nature and purpose of ICT

A policy explains this belief to the school community

A policy sets a vision for what it wishes to achieve

A policy will describe a strategy for how the school will promote its beliefs

A policy sets out principles to guide decisions

A development plan describes the stages to go through to achieve the school's vision

An ICT handbook describes operational details of the development plan

The beliefs in the potential of ICT which underpin the purposes for an ICT policy

This school believes that:Fluency in the use of ICT is becoming as important as fluency in language and
number

ICT deserves to have a planned profile in the school curriculum equivalent to that for other essential
skills.

ICT is becoming the most efficient medium for finding and using information as part of the learning
process.

An effective ICT strategy should result in an improved quality of work and greater pupil attainment
across subjects.

Information is the key raw material of the Information Age.

Pupils need to be fluent in its use for learning, leisure and work.

All pupils are entitled to opportunities to use computers whenever it can make learning more effective.

We will constantly seek to improve the quality of teaching and learning using ICT.

The principles, which underpin decisions, made about the development of ICT - more useful than lots of
rules

3Our ICT strategy will be guided by the following principles:Investments in ICT resources must be linked
to raising the achievement of pupils
We will seek to evaluate and maximise the effectiveness of our ICT systemsWe will not allow
obstacles to stand in the way of developments which ensure the effective use ofexpensive
resourcesICT resources will be deployed so as to provide the greatest amount of use to the greatest
number of pupilsWe will seek to support and to expect development of highest standards of teaching
and learning using ICTA statement of the outcomes to developing ICT in line with the school's beliefs -
can be used as success criteriaThis school seeks to develop the use of ICT :to promote pupils skills in
using ICT thoughtfullyto help pupils apply their ICT skills effectively to their work in subjectsto build a
library of NC-related electronic source materials to promote the process of research in subjectsto
promote the skills associated with enquiry and using information as a raw material to build
'informationproducts'The development plan will describe the stages in moving towards the vision for
ICT.The ICT handbook will set out operational details like responsibilities, resources and procedures

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