Improving Students' ICT Use: The LDCT at Burleigh Heads State School.

earning and Development Centres – Learning Technology (LDCT's) have been established by Education Queensland to enhance the professional development of teachers in integrating information and communications technologies (ICT) in their curriculum programs. This paper, following an articulation of the principles underpinning the operation of the LDCT's, reports research findings obtained from an investigation of student outcomes of Year 5, 6 and Year 7 students at the LDCT established at Burleigh Heads State School. A framework of the ways in which ICT might be used in student learning was conceptualised in terms of two categories – Learning for Areas and Learning through Areas. Within those major organising categories, additional areas, which informed those categories, were identified to create a Learning for Technology Student Rubric and a Learning through Technology Student Rubric. Data were obtained through the use of those rubrics as well as through interviews with teachers and students. The improved use of ICT by students is reported.