Can schools ensure that students are learning technology and information literacy?

I guess a bigger question is "Can schools ensure that students are learning any curriculum?" The best way to ensure that a certain curriculum is being taught to to make it part of the schools curricula with a clear scope and sequence. It would also be important to have some hard data to determine if the students are learning the curriculum and to what extent. As you can see this is leading to a sticky mess when you try to put sequence technology skills in an ever changing technology landscape. For instance, I never had to learn how to use MS DOS, but I feel pretty comfortable using many different word processing programs that are available today. It is not unusual for a citizen living in a developing country to have a cell phone, but to have never used a land line phone. Is it necessary to teach and or learn technology tools in certain hierarchy? Absolutely not. Once again it takes many players to ensure that students are learning adequate and appropriate skills. First there needs to be an infrastructure in place where the tools are available. Then the teachers need to have the necessary skills themselves in order to assist their students. This may require additional support from technology teachers if they are available. Tools will constantly change and develop, so it is important that teachers remain dedicated to keeping up with the times help students develop their skills throughout their educational journey.

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