ABSTRACT
The non-statutory guidance for Information Technology (IT) sets out in its opening paragraphs the five aims of developing Information Technology capability in pupils and of using IT to enhance and extend teaching across the curriculum. The five aims those are: Information handling, Developing ideas and communication information, Measurement and control, Modelling, Applications and effects. The National Curriculum suggests that we fully explore the use of such software tools through a planned sequence of processes in which pupils are involved in gathering, storing, retrieving and modifying information as well as simply entering it. Databases offer pupils a powerful tool for exploring the significance of information by categorizing and interrogating it as well as representing it in tabular or graphic form. The range of IT devices which allow pupils with severe learning difficulties to handle information continues to grow and to merge into everyday life.
