ICT and MRL
Info-Comm Technology and MRL
Today almost every child grows up with digital devices at home and in the classroom, and this changes the way he/she learns. To ensure Pioneer students are equipped with the digital know-how and become self-directed and responsible users of digital technology, the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) department designs relevant learning programmes incorporated with skills, knowledge, attitude and values that will enable them to apply and demonstrate when they
- Curate digital content,
- Create digital multimodal products, and
- Connect and communicate digitally across a range of digital media platforms in the digital networked environment.
Adopting MOE’s New Media Literacies Framework, Pioneer ICT learning programmes also covers cyber security and wellness in the critical areas and issues associated with ethical and legal as well as safe and responsible use of ICT.
| Competency Areas | Learning Outcomes | P1 & P2 | P3 & P4 | P5 & P6 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curate | Access to Information | Demonstrate effective search skills | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Practise safe and ethical search | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Information Management | Organise digital information using appropriate data management tools and strategies | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Inquiry of Information | Determine reliability of information | ✓ | |||
| Verify information to make discerning choice | ✓ | ||||
| Risk Evaluation and Management | Adopt a proactive stance to maintain online safety | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Create | Production | Use digital creation tools and applications to create a digital artefacts efficiently | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Design | Effectively utilise appropriate digital creation tools and applications to create digital text-based and multimodal products | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Apply fundamental understanding of ethical and legal issues surrounding the creation and sharing of digital creation | ✓ | ||||
| Connect | Communication of Information | Use appropriate digital communication tools and strategies to share information with the intended viewers | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Participation | Participate in digital community actively | ✓ | |||
| Manage personal identity and reputation | ✓ | ||||
| Demonstrate appreciation for diversity and social cohesion | ✓ | ||||
| Technical Understanding | Basic Operation of Computing Devices | Operate and navigate in multiple forms of user interface | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Operate peripherals equipment | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Basic Operation of Applications/Software | Use application software, files and folders effectively | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Storage and Maintenance of Data | Save, download and transfer data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
At the end of the 6 years of primary education, students will acquire a set of basic ICT skills under the 21st Century Competencies on the Communication, Collaboration and Information domain:
- Conduct internet searches and organise the digital information for ease of retrieval while recognising copyright regulations governing the use of digital information,
- Verify the accuracy, credibility and currency of a piece of information,
- Select and put together different media elements to construct a digital artefact, while making informed choices with regard to how to use information ethically,
- Exchange digital information with others synchronously and asynchronously, while observing proper etiquette, and
- Manage the digital footprint he/she makes when sharing information online.
Media Resource Library
To nurture every Pioneer student to be avid readers, Pioneer MRL organises regular activities that students can participate.
- Books ALIVE
- Book Talk, Book Sharing and Reading a-Loud (Recess Activities)
- Thematic and Festive Display (Monthly, i.e. Blind Date with a Book in February)
- Genre and Author of the Month (Monthly)
- Primary 3 to 6 Library Periods
- Reading Carnival (Semestral)
- Top Class Borrowers (Monthly) and Reading Champion (Termly)
- Mass Borrowing (in partnership with NLB)
- Lower Primary Storytelling and Library Card (in partnership with NLB)