Standards - Digital Literacy & Computer Science

Identify, demonstrate, and apply personal safe use of digital devices.

Recognize and demonstrate age-appropriate responsible use of digital devices and resources as outlined in school/district rules.

Assess the validity and identify the purpose of digital content.

Identify and employ appropriate troubleshooting techniques used to solve computing or connectivity issues.

Locate and curate information from digital sources to answer research questions.

Produce, review, and revise authentic artifacts that include multimedia using appropriate digital tools.

Decompose problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand the levels of abstractions in complex systems.

Explain how computing systems are often integrated with other systems and embedded in ways that may not be apparent to the user.

Differentiate between a generalized expression of an algorithm in pseudocode and its concrete implementation in a programming language.

Explain that some algorithms do not lead to exact solutions in a reasonable amount of time and thus approximations are acceptable.

Compare and contrast the difference between specific control structures such as sequential statements, conditional, iteration, and explain the benefits and drawbacks of choices made.

Distinguish when a problem solution requires decisions to be made among alternatives, such as selection constructs, or when a solution needs to be iteratively processed to arrive at a result, such as iterative ‘loop’ constructs or recursion.

Evaluate and select algorithms based on performance, reusability, and ease of implementation.

Explain how more than one algorithm may solve the same problem and yet be characterized with different priorities.

Use and adapt classic algorithms to solve computational problems.

Design and iteratively develop computational artifacts for practical intent, personal expression, or to address a societal issue by using current events.

Decompose problems into smaller components through systematic analysis, using constructs such as procedures, modules, and/or objects, with parameters, and which return a result.

Compare and contrast fundamental data structures and their uses.

Demonstrate code reuse by creating programming solutions using libraries and Application Programming Interfaces.

Demonstrate the ability to verify the correctness of a program.

Develop and use a series of test cases to verify that a program performs according to its design specifications.

Collaborate in a code review process to identify correctness, efficiency, scalability and readability of program code.

Resolve or debug errors encountered during testing using iterative design process.

Model and demonstrate behaviors that are safe, legal, and ethical while living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world.

Recognize user tracking methods and hazards.

Understand how to apply techniques to mitigate effects of user tracking methods.

Understand the ramifications of end-user license agreements and terms of service associated with granting rights to personal data and media to other entities.

Explain the relationship between online privacy and personal security.

Identify physical, legal, and ethical consequences of inappropriate digital behaviors.

Explain strategies to lessen the impact of negative digital behaviors and assess when to apply them.

Describe how sensitive data can be affected by malware and other attacks.

Compare various security measures of a computer system.

Compare ways to protect devices, software, and data.

Explain the necessity for the school’s Acceptable Use Policy.

Identify laws regarding the use of technology and their consequences and implications.