(Source: Monash University) by Michael Phillips National data released this week indicates that digital technology use in schools is clearly not working, at least not in the way that we are led to believe it should be. More disturbingly, the latest data confirms an ongoing trend that now sees nearly half of the nation's secondary school students failing to meet minimum digital literacy standards. More than 10,000 students were tested by the Australian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (ACARA) in 2014 as part of the National Assessment Program (NAP) for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) literacy. Results showing only 55 per cent of grade six students achieved expected standards...
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