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Aspect 2: Curriculum and Assessment

Aspect 2: Curriculum and Assessment

📝 Cheat Sheet
  • This aspect covers technology in what you teach and how you check learning.
  • Curriculum is what is taught; assessment is how you measure it.
  1. Basic Knowledge: know the subject content and basic ICT facts.
  2. Knowledge Application: use ICT to deepen subject understanding and assessment.
  3. Knowledge Society Skills: build skills students need for a digital world.

What This Aspect Is

Curriculum is the content a teacher is meant to teach. Assessment is how a teacher checks whether students have learned it. This aspect is about weaving technology into both, so the subject is taught more clearly and learning is measured more usefully.

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Technology that sits outside the curriculum is just decoration.

UNESCO treats this as a competency because the value comes when tools serve the actual content and the checks on learning.

A teacher who can match a tool to a subject goal, and use technology to see what students understand, gets real gains. A teacher who bolts on technology for its own sake does not.

#AspectKnowledge AcquisitionKnowledge DeepeningKnowledge Creation
1Understanding ICT in Education Policy
2Curriculum and AssessmentBasic KnowledgeKnowledge ApplicationKnowledge Society Skills
3Pedagogy
4Application of Digital Skills
5Organisation and Administration
6Teacher Professional Learning

Aspect 2 Level 1

Basic Knowledge

Knowledge Acquisition
The teacher knows the subject content and some basic facts about ICT, and can match simple tools to topics.
  • Picks a video that fits a topic.
  • Uses a quiz app for a fact check.
  • Shows a diagram on screen.

Aspect 2 Level 2

Knowledge Application

Knowledge Deepening
The teacher uses ICT to deepen subject understanding and to assess learning in richer ways.
  • Students model a problem in a spreadsheet.
  • A simulation tests a science idea.
  • Assessment uses a digital portfolio.

Aspect 2 Level 3

Knowledge Society Skills

Knowledge Creation
The teacher helps students build the skills a digital society needs, such as creating, evaluating, and sharing knowledge.
  • Students publish work for a real audience.
  • A class evaluates online sources together.
  • Students build a shared knowledge base.
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What does this aspect cover?
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What is the difference between curriculum and assessment?
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At Basic Knowledge, the teacher mainly does what?
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What marks the Knowledge Society Skills level?
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Why must technology serve the curriculum?
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What is the Curriculum and Assessment aspect?
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Weaving technology into the content you teach and the way you check learning, so the subject is taught more clearly and understanding is measured more usefully.
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What are the three levels of this aspect?
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Basic Knowledge (match simple tools to content), Knowledge Application (use ICT to deepen understanding and assessment), and Knowledge Society Skills (build skills a digital world needs).
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What is the difference between curriculum and assessment?
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Curriculum is the content a teacher is meant to teach. Assessment is how the teacher checks whether students have learned it.
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What does Knowledge Society Skills mean here?
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Helping students gain the skills a digital society needs: creating, evaluating, and sharing knowledge, often for a real audience.

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