Technology Literacy 1

COURSE OVERVIEW

Technology Literacy 1 is a nine-week rotation course for students in 7th grade.  The course will identify the rights, roles, and responsibilities of digital citizenship.  In addition, there will be a great focus on computer programming.

• Define digital citizenship accurately.
• List the rights, roles, and responsibilities of digital citizenship correctly.
• Give examples of cyberbullying realistically.
• List the tips and tricks of searching Google effectively.
• Identify how Google search works correctly.
• Classify the history of computer programming properly.
• Define computer programming correctly.
• Explore the computer programming environment effectively.
• Identify the design of the computer program accurately.
• Create a project using computer programming effectively.
• Create a game using computer programming successfully.

1. Creativity and innovation.

Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.

1. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

2. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression.

3. Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues.

4. Identify trends and forecast possibilities.

2. Communication and collaboration.

Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.

1. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.

2. Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.

3. Develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures.

4. Contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.

3. Research and information fluency.

Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.

1. Plan strategies to guide inquiry.

2. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.

3. Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.

4. Process data and report results.

4. Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making. 

Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.

1. Identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation.

2. Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.

3. Collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.

4. Use multiple processes and diverse perspectives to explore alternative solutions.

5. Digital citizenship

Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.

1. Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.

2. Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity.

3. Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.

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4. Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship.

6. Technology operations and concepts

Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations.

5. Understand and use technology systems.

6. Select and use applications effectively and productively.

7. Troubleshoot systems and applications.

8. Transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies.

Communications

15.3.8.A: Selecting the appropriate writing type to produce a work product.

15.3.8.C: Apply strategies to understand complex directions.

15.3.8.D: Distinguish between appropriate and in- appropriate business work products.

15.3.8.E: Choose appropriate print and electronic resources to meet project need.

15.3.8.G: Develop appropriate information and content for presentations, meetings, discussions, and group assignments.

15.3.8.H: Deliver presentations using a variety of techniques and media; employ conventions of language.

15.3.8.I: Distinguish between relevant and non-relevant information for note taking, questioning, or decision making.

15.3.8.K: Determine the situational appropriateness of verbal and non-verbal behaviors.

15.3.8.L: Describe the characteristics of positive role models for development of work ethic and leadership skills.

15.3.8.M: Demonstrate proper etiquette when networking either face-to-face or online.

15.3.8.N: Examine the impact of work ethic in various contexts.

15.3.8.O: Discuss types of communication skills (e.g., internal, external) in organizations.

15.3.8.P: Describe leadership communication skills necessary for goal setting and generating ideas.

15.3.8.Q: Identify communication channels and their purpose in the business community.

15.3.8.S: Apply appropriate electronic communication based on message requirements.

15.3.8.T: Discuss the rules of digital citizenship.

15.3.8.U: Identify and employ various electronic communication options related to desired outcomes.

15.3.8.V: Describe varieties of mobile communication used within businesses and/or organizations.

15.3.8.W: Use electronic communication with peers and/or educators to produce a work product.

15.3.8.X: Demonstrate effective techniques for good communication.

Computer and Information Technologies

15.4.8.A: Analyze the influence of emerging technologies on daily life.

15.4.8.B: Interpret and apply appropriate social, legal, ethical, and safe behaviors of digital citizenship.

15.4.8.C: Compare and contrast peripheral devices of computing systems for specific needs.

15.4.8.D: Create projects using emerging input technologies.

15.4.8.E: Explain the different operating systems.

15.4.8.F: Identify network communication technologies.

15.4.8.G: Create an advanced digital project using appropriate software/application for an authentic task.

15.4.8.H: Explain the differences between a scripting language and a coding language.

15.4.8.I: Solve a problem with an algorithm.

15.4.8.J: Explain the basic differences between encoding and decoding.

15.4.8.K: Create a multimedia project using student-created digital media.

15.4.8.L: Evaluate the accuracy and bias of online sources of information; appropriately cite online resources.

15.4.8.M: Explore and describe how emerging technologies are used across different career paths.

Unit:  Digital Citizenship

Lessons:

• Digital Citizenship definition
• Rights, Roles, Responsibilities list
• Cyberbullying examples
• Google Search activities

Unit:  Computer Programming – App Inventor

Lessons:

• Computer Programming history
• Computer Programming definition
• Computer Programming exploration activities
• Computer Program design
• Computer Program projects
• Computer Program games