Basic Skills Online - Level 1 - Information Technology Standards

The IT skills your students need are:

• to find information.
• to develop information.
• to present information which includes text, images and numbers.

In finding and developing information, they must feel confident about being able to:

• find different types of information (e.g. text, images, numbers) from IT sources (e.g. files, CD-ROM) and non-IT sources (e.g. handwritten notes, price lists, diagrams.)
• decide what information is relevant for your purpose (e.g. to answer questions from a customer, write a report, help solve a problem or to make something.)
• enter and bring in information (e.g. copy and paste text, import clip-art images) using formats that help development (e.g. consistent use of spaces, tabs and returns, format of numbers, graphic features such as line thickness and shading.)
• explore information (e.g. ask the right questions to find things out, try out alternatives.)
• develop information in the form of text, images and numbers (e.g. organise information, carry out calculations)

This is what they have to do to demonstrate these skills:

• find, explore and develop information for two different purposes.
• find and select relevant information.
• enter and bring in information, using formats that help development.
• explore and develop information to meet your purpose.

These are the type of tasks that will produce this evidence:

They will have opportunities to develop and apply their IT skills during their work, studies or other activities.

For example, when:
1. doing a project, or assignment, and presenting your findings
2. finding things out for customers or clients
3. exchanging information and ideas with work colleagues or other students.

What can they use as evidence?

• Printouts and copies of the information they selected to use.
• A record from an assessor who observed they using IT when exploring and developing information.
• Or alternatively working drafts with notes of how they met the requirements of the unit.

Can they?

• find different types of information (e.g. text, images, numbers) from IT sources (e.g. files, CD ROM) and non-IT sources (e.g. handwritten notes, price lists, diagrams)
• decide what information is relevant for your purpose (e.g. to answer questions from a customer, write a report, help solve a problem or to make something)
• enter and bring in information (e.g. copy and paste text, import clip-art images) using formats that help development (e.g. consistent use of spaces, tabs and returns, format of numbers, graphic features such as line thickness and shading)
• explore information (e.g. ask the right questions to find things out, try out alternatives)
• develop information in the form of text, images and numbers (e.g. organise information, carry out calculations).

In presenting information, they must feel confident about being able to:

• use appropriate layouts for presenting different types of information, including text, images and numbers (e.g. select screen displays or pages for different types of document, such as letters or invoices)
• present information in a consistent way (e.g. fonts, bullet and number lists, alignments, size and position of images, tables of numbers)
• develop the presentation to meet your purpose (e.g. organise the presentation by moving, copying, deleting and inserting information)
• make sure your work is accurate and clear (e.g. check content is relevant, proof read, use a spell checker, ask others and select and highlight information to improve its clarity)
• save information so it can be found easily (e.g. use suitable folders/directories and file names).

They will also need to know how IT can help they in your work and be able to compare your use of IT with other methods.

This is what they have to do to demonstrate these skills:

• Your work must include at least one example of text, one example of images and one example of numbers.
• Use appropriate layouts for presenting information in a consistent way.
• Develop the presentation so it is accurate, clear and meets your purpose.
• Save information so it can be found easily.

These are the type of tasks that will produce this evidence:

• The purpose for using IT can be decided by they or by other people.
• However they must make sure that the work they produce suits this purpose.
• Using IT can contribute evidence of your use of other key skills, such as communication and application of number.
• they will also need to know how IT can help they in your work and be able to compare your use of IT with other methods.
• It is important that they can work safely and take care of equipment, avoid losing information and know how to get help when dealing with errors.

What can they use as evidence?

• Working drafts showing how they developed the presentation or records from an assessor who saw your screen displays.
• Printouts or prints of a static or dynamic screen display of your final work, including examples of text, images and numbers.
• Records of how they saved information.

Can they?

• use appropriate layouts for presenting different types of information, including text, images and numbers (e.g. select screen displays or pages for different types of document, such as letters or invoices)
• present information in a consistent way (e.g. fonts, bullet and number lists, alignments, size and position of images, tables of numbers)
• develop the presentation to meet your purpose (e.g. organise the presentation by moving, copying, deleting and inserting information)
• make sure your work is accurate and clear (e.g. check content is relevant, proof read, use a spell checker, ask others and select and highlight information to improve its clarity)
• save information so it can be found easily (e.g. use suitable folders/directories and file names).

It is important that they can work safely and take care of equipment, avoid losing information and know how to get help when dealing with errors.

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