Standards

Technology Standards

• Exhibit legal and ethical behaviors when using information and technology, and discuss consequences of misuse.

• Collaborate with peers, experts, and others using telecommunications and collaborative tools to investigate curriculum related problems, issues, and information, and to develop solutions or products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.

• Apply strategies for identifying and solving routing hardware and software problems that occur during everyday use.

• Use content-specific tools, software, and simulations (e.g., environmental probes, graphing calculators, exploratory environments, Web tools) to support learning and research.

• Apply productivity/multimedia tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, group collaboration, and learning throughout the curriculum.

• Design, develop, publish, and present products (e.g., Web pages, videotapes) using technology resources that demonstrate and communicate curriculum concepts to audiences inside and outside the classroom.

• Collaborate with peers, experts, and others using telecommunications and collaborative tools to investigate curriculum-related problems, issues, and information, and to develop solutions or products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.

• Select and use appropriate tools and technology resources to accomplish a variety of tasks and solve problems.

• Research and evaluate the accuracy, relevance, appropriateness, comprehensiveness, and bias of electronic information sources concerning real-world problems.

English / Language Arts Standards

• State Goal 5: Use the language arts to acquire, assess and communicate information.

  • A. Locate, organize, and use information from various sources to answer questions, solve problems and communicate ideas.

  • B. Analyze and evaluate information acquired from various sources.

  • C. Apply acquired information, concepts and ideas to communicate in a variety of formats.