STANDARD 4: TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS TOOLS

 

Building on productivity tools, students will collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts

 

and other audiences using telecommunications and media.

 

 

 

READINESS (Kindergarten)

 

No concepts identified for this level

 

 

 

FOUNDATIONS (Grades 1-3)

 

Students know and are able to do the following:

 

4T-F1. Communicate with others using telecommunications, with support from

 

teachers, family members or student partners

 

See: Language Arts (W-F4)

 

PO 1. Communicate information electronically with support from teachers, family members

 

or student partners (e.g., e-mail, videoconferencing, Web page)

 

4T-F2. Use technology tools for individual and collaborative communication activities

 

to share products with audiences inside and outside the classroom

 

See: Language Arts (W-F1)

 

PO 1. Plan, design, and present an academic product to classroom or community (e.g., slide

 

show, progressive story, drawings, story illustrations, video production, digital

 

images)

 

 

 

ESSENTIALS (Grades 4-8)

 

Students know and are able to do all of the above and the following:

 

4T-E1. Use telecommunications efficiently and effectively to access remote information

 

and communicate with others in support of facilitated and independent learning

 

See: Language Arts (W-E3-E6)

 

PO 1. Communicate independently via e-mail, Internet, and/or videoconference with people

 

in a remote location (For Internet safety see Technology 2T-E1)

 

4T-E2. Use technology tools for individual and collaborative writing, communication

 

and publishing activities to create curricular related products for audiences inside and

 

outside the classroom

 

See: Language Arts (W-E2-E7, LS-E)

 PowerPoint

PO 1. Plan, design and present an academic product using technology tools (e.g.,

The Car Project   PowerPoint

multimedia authoring, presentation software, digital cameras, scanners, projection

 

devices)

 

4T-E3. Collaboratively use telecommunications and online resources

 

See: Arts {Theatre} (2AT-E1) and Social Studies (1SS-E8, PO2, grades 6-8)

 

(For Internet safety issues see Technology 2T-E1)

 

PO 1. Request collaborative exchanges among people in local and/or remote locations

 

(e.g., e-mail, online discussions, Web environments)

 

PO 2. Communicate electronically to collaborate with experts, peers and others to analyze

 

data and/or develop an academic product (e.g., e-mail, discussion group,

 

videoconferencing)

 

PO 3. Present an academic product to share data and/or solutions (e.g., Web site,

The Car Project   PowerPoint

multimedia presentation, video)

 

 

 

PROFICIENCY (Grades 9-12)

 

Students know and are able to do all of the above and the following:

 

4T-P1. Routinely and efficiently use online information resources to meet needs for

 

collaboration and communications

 

See: Language Arts (W-P2-6) and Workplace Skills (1WP-P5)

 

PO 1. Using criteria for research in Standard 5, create an end product (e.g., multimedia

 

presentation, publication, Web page) to disseminate the information

 

4T-P2. Manage and communicate personal and professional information utilizing

 

technology tools and resources

 

See: Language Arts (W-P2-6) and Workplace Skills (7WP-P1, 1WP-P3)

 

PO 1. Plan and present a product appropriate to the task

 

4T-P3. Using technology, collaborate with peers, experts, and others to contribute to a

 

content-related knowledge base

 

See: Workplace Skills (1WP-P3-6 and P9, 4WP-P1)

 

PO 1. Contribute digitized material (e.g., video interviews, scanned pictures, text, and

 

graphic information) to a project archive and create links to resource material

 

PO 2. Conduct e-mail interviews with content experts

 

PO 3. Consider several methods and choose the best for building group collaboration in

 

research, communication and presentation among students in physically separated

 

schools

 

DISTINCTION (Honors)

 

Students know and are able to do all of the above and the following:

 

4T-D1. Use technology to compile, synthesize, produce, and disseminate information,

 

models, and other creative works

 

See: Language Arts (LS-D) and Workplace Skills (1WP-D4)

 

 

 

 

 

4T-D2. Participate in a student think-tank simulation to solve a technology-based

 

problem

 

See: Workplace Skills (1WP-D5, 4WP-D1)