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.

Remove background details from an everyday process to highlight essential properties.

Define a process as a function.

Create pseudocode that uses conditionals.

Differentiate between flowcharts and pseudocode.

Identify algorithms that make use of sequencing, selection or iteration.

Identify steps in developing solutions to complex problems using computational thinking.

Describe how automation works to increase efficiency.

Create a program that initializes a variable.

Differentiate between a secure and a non-secure website including how they affect personal data.

Describe the causes and effects of illegal use of intellectual property as it relates to print and digital media, considering copyright, fair use, licensing, sharing, and attribution.

Differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate digital content and the use of that content.

Define digital permanence.

Define personal privacy, digital footprint, and open communication.

Discuss digital globalization and Internet censorship.

Identify emerging technologies in computing.

Communicate and/or publish collaboratively to inform others from a variety of backgrounds and cultures about issues and problems.

Type 30 words per minute with 95% accuracy using appropriate keyboarding techniques.

Define censorship.

Track data change from a variety of sources.

Identify data transferring protocols, visualization, and the purpose of data and methods of storage.

Identify varying data structures/systems and methods of classification, including decimal and binary.

Summarize the purpose of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII).

Discuss how digital devices may be used to collect, analyze, and present information.

Compare and contrast types of networks.

Differentiate between secure and non-secure systems.

Explain why professionals may use models as logical representations of physical, mathematical, or logical systems or processes.

Explain how simulations serve to implement models.

Define assistive technologies and state reasons they may be needed.

Define artificial intelligence and identify examples of artificial intelligence in the community.