Integration or Transformation?
A cross-national study of information and communication technology in school education
Appendix 6.17
Table 35: Australian states and their preparedness for transformative Phase 3.
State |
Professional development |
Infrastructure |
Curriculum frameworks and preparedness for transformative Phase 3 |
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|
ICT basic skills |
ICT classroom integration |
ICT skills for on-line and independent learning |
Student: |
Bandwidth per school (Kbits/s) 1 |
Quality of framework for ICT across the curriculum |
Readiness for Phase 3 |
ACT |
Information Literacy
training. |
WebQuests |
The O'Connell Information and Resource Centre |
4.6:1 6 |
64.29 |
Grade 10 IT skills certification |
Software acquisition Stage 4: mapped against curriculum requirements on whole school basis, accessible from home |
NSW |
TILT |
TILT+ |
|
11:14 |
29.23 |
|
|
NT |
n/a |
Maths - No Fear! Project 5 |
Create & Communicate project |
Improve Access Improve Opportunity and LATIS projects |
9.03 |
Principal directed pilots Making IT work |
Open Learning Support Unit. |
QLD |
55 per cent of teachers to achieve the minimum standards for teachers learning technology by 2001 3 |
n/a |
n/a |
? better than other states 7 |
79.77 |
Multi-literacies |
Virtual School (but only for distance education) |
SA |
High levels of staff competence were identified in basic computing operation and word processing; |
middle range competence for integration 8 |
Relatively low level competence in Internet use 8 |
5:1 (2001 target) 8 |
11.59 |
|
|
WA |
Notebooks for teachers scheme |
|
|
5:1 (secondary) 10:1 (primary) (2002 targets) 9 |
63.99 |
|
|
Tas |
IRT (basic skills): 90% of state school teachers have done at least one module |
|
|
6:1 |
27.60 |
|
|
Vic |
Laptops for teachers scheme |
67% of teachers reported intermediate or advanced IT skills 10 |
|
4.65:1 11 |
46.09 |
Applications based |
|
(Sources: 1 Moon, 1999; 2 Nethercott, 2000; 3 Education Queensland (2000c); 4 Department of Education and Training, NSW (2000) p 106; 5 Northern Territory Department of Education, 2000; 6 ACT Department of Education & Community Services, 2000; 7 Education Queensland, 2000d p 29; 8 Department of Education, Training and Employment, SA 2000; 9 Vardon, 1998; 10 Department of Education, Employment and Training (Victoria), 2000, p. 32; 11 ibid, p 43)