Standards - Career & Technical Education

Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and handling hazardous materials and forces.

Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.

Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements, and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.

Advocate and practice safe, legal, responsible, and ethical use of information and technology tools specific to the industry pathway.

Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.

Use technology to collaborate with peers and/or experts to create digital artifacts that can be published online for a target audience.

Formulate new ideas, solve problems, or create products through the design and engineering process by utilizing testing, prototypes, and user feedback.

Describe the history and evolution of artificial intelligence, including contributors to its development and their significant accomplishments.

Explain the five big ideas in artificial intelligence (perception, representation and reasoning, learning, natural interaction, and societal impact).

Identify and describe current applications of artificial intelligence, including the problems artificial intelligence is designed to solve.

Research and present information on ways artificial intelligence can be used to enhance the future of student learning and to impact business and real-world issues.

Describe and write computer code using algorithmic and heuristic processes for artificial intelligence programs.

Describe a few of the major branches of artificial intelligence.

Resolve artificial intelligence programming issues via a collaborative problem-solving process.

Research and present information on how quantum computing is being utilized with artificial intelligence programs.

Create a project using web tools that train machine learning without coding to train a model to recognize data in various formats and distinguish among at least three different categories.

Identify and research artificial intelligence development solutions and development tools.

Identify and use integrated development environments (IDEs) and packages in program development to build and train machine learning models.

Describe different types of data and explain how they are used in artificial intelligence.

Explain how big data is used in artificial intelligence.

Construct an experiment using small datasets of a given scenario to predict performance outcomes, utilizing varying machine learning models.

Collect, manipulate, and display data to improve relevant business practices, utilizing a given machine learning model.

Gather, evaluate, and share information on the role of data science in artificial intelligence.

Research and describe the social and ethical impacts of artificial intelligence.

Investigate and develop potential solutions to social and ethical issues related to artificial intelligence.

Analyze current and emerging technologies specific to artificial intelligence and summarize the ethical and legal effects on humanity.