Technology in VCE Commerce Subject: Year 11 Business Management

'Australian business studies programmes have been slow to respond to the need to integrate information technologies into the core studies and assessment materials". "The impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on society is having profound effects on the way the economy operates, on how people work, learn and spend their leisure time, and on how they communicate with each other" (Gilbert, 2001). "In using ICT's in the teaching and learning of SOSE, we have a …

…the need to integrate information technologies into the core studies and assessment materials. References: Board of Studies, 1999, Business Management Study Design, Carlton, Victoria. Commonwealth Bank of Australia website: http://about.commbank.com.au Elliot, A. 2004, Cultural change needed to exploit ICT in schools, Information Age, 16/04/2004. Gilbert, R. (Ed), 2001, Studying Society and Environment, 2nd edn, Social Science Press, Katoomba, NSW. Observations from teaching rounds at Emerald Secondary College. Tutor2u website: http://www.tutor2u.net