TY - GEN
T1 - A recommended ICT curriculum for K-12 education
AU - Hu, Chiu Fan
AU - Lin, Yu Tzu
AU - Chuang, Hui Chi
AU - Wu, Cheng Chih
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The K-12 ICT (Information and Communication Technology) curriculum in Taiwan faced many changes in last two decades. In 1990s, Computers is a required subject in junior high schools and an elective subject in senior high schools, along with many elementary schools offered computer classes. In 2000s, when ICT was popular in schools and families, Taiwan MOE (Ministry of Education) decided that ICT should be integrated into all subjects and Computers was excluded from the required learning areas in K-9 education. On the other hand, computing science was considered important in senior high schools and Introduction to ICT became a compulsory subject in 2006. As Taiwan will implement a twelve-year public education program, the MOE is undergoing revising the existed K-12 curriculum. This paper reports our recommendation on a new ICT curriculum to be implemented in K-12 schools. The recommended ICT curriculum is based on Delphi research methodology. The merit of Delphi technique is to form consensus among experts through several rounds of questionnaire survey. By reviewing the ICT curriculum from many developed countries and organizations, we drafted a preliminary ICT curriculum, including its strands, objectives, and framework. The study is still undergoing. The paper reports the preliminary results of the first stage of our Delphi survey.
AB - The K-12 ICT (Information and Communication Technology) curriculum in Taiwan faced many changes in last two decades. In 1990s, Computers is a required subject in junior high schools and an elective subject in senior high schools, along with many elementary schools offered computer classes. In 2000s, when ICT was popular in schools and families, Taiwan MOE (Ministry of Education) decided that ICT should be integrated into all subjects and Computers was excluded from the required learning areas in K-9 education. On the other hand, computing science was considered important in senior high schools and Introduction to ICT became a compulsory subject in 2006. As Taiwan will implement a twelve-year public education program, the MOE is undergoing revising the existed K-12 curriculum. This paper reports our recommendation on a new ICT curriculum to be implemented in K-12 schools. The recommended ICT curriculum is based on Delphi research methodology. The merit of Delphi technique is to form consensus among experts through several rounds of questionnaire survey. By reviewing the ICT curriculum from many developed countries and organizations, we drafted a preliminary ICT curriculum, including its strands, objectives, and framework. The study is still undergoing. The paper reports the preliminary results of the first stage of our Delphi survey.
KW - Computing curriculum
KW - Delphi method
KW - ICT
KW - K-12 education
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U2 - 10.1109/LaTiCE.2014.14
DO - 10.1109/LaTiCE.2014.14
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84903477696
SN - 9781479935918
T3 - Proceedings - 2014 International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Computing and Engineering, LATICE 2014
SP - 33
EP - 36
BT - Proceedings - 2014 International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Computing and Engineering, LATICE 2014
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2014 International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Computing and Engineering, LATICE 2014
Y2 - 11 April 2014 through 13 April 2014
ER -