TEACHING TECHNOLOGY

ICT = Information Communication Technology Skills

?Leaders seek consensus at ICT Literacy Summit? (from the January 29, 2003 issue of eSchoolNews --http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryalert.cfm?ArticleID=4211

further substantiates the difficulty in "defining literacy."

According to a 2002 study called Digital Transformation: A Framework for ICT Literacy, ICT literacy is defined as ?using digital technology, communications tools, and/or networks to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, and create information in order to function in a knowledge society

The report?sponsored by Educational Testing Service (ETS) and conducted by the International ICT Literacy Panel ?outlines five basic skills necessary to achieve ICT literacy:

• The ability to access information in the digital era;

• Knowledge of how to manage information effectively;

• The ability to interpret and integrate the results of research;

• The ability to evaluate the quality of these results; and

• The ability to create new information by adapting, applying, designing, inventing, or authoring information.