Dear All,
If memory serves, this is a DFEE invention (and therefore universally
used in schools... though not necessarily in colleges and universities) it
stands for Information and Communication [s...the plural is sometimes used]
Technology. It means something more than IT...
Refs: see any current National Curriculum document
Cheers John M
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-----Original Message-----
From: Fytton Rowland [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 1:49 PM
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Subject: Re: definition of ICT
Not an answer to Helen's question, I'm afraid, but another question.
I first met "ICT" in the Dearing report -- until then, plain old "IT" was
the acronym generally used. I believed "ICT" to stand for "information and
communications technology", but recently I was marking some student work
that expanded it to "information, communications and technology", a
definition so broad that it might include almost everything in the modern
world! Does anyone know whether the definition of the term "ICT" has been
expanded to this latter one, or was it just a student error?
Fytton Rowland.
At 01:32 PM 4/27/01 +0100, you wrote:
>I'm doing a dissertation, on the impact of ICT on mobile library
>service provision and use, and am looking for an authoritative
>definition of ICT which does not focus on the Internet solely. If
>anyone has any suggestions could they please email me at the
>following address
>
>[log in to unmask]
>
>Thanks
>Helen Towers
>email: [log in to unmask]
>Department of Information Studies
>University of Sheffield
>Western Bank
>Sheffield
>S10 2TN
>UK
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