Standards - Digital Literacy & Computer Science

Explain that laws and tools exist to help ensure that people of varying abilities can access electronic and information technology.

Explain the different forms of web advertising and why websites, digital resources, and artifacts may include advertisements that may collect personal information.

Share knowledge of resources in the community that can give people access to technology.

Analyze the impact of social media on individuals, families, and society.

Explore and predict how advances in computing technologies affect job opportunities and/or processes now and in the future.

Use advanced features of digital tools and media-rich resources to communicate key ideas and details in a way that informs, persuades, and/or entertains.

Publish organized information in different ways to make it more useful or relevant.

Type 25 words per minute with 95% accuracy using appropriate keyboarding techniques.

Conduct advanced keyword searches to produce valid, appropriate results and evaluate results for accuracy, relevance, and appropriateness.

Collaborate locally and globally using online digital tools under teacher supervision.

Manipulate data to answer a question using a variety of computing methods and tools to collect, organize, graph, analyze, and publish the resulting information.

Identify computing services that may be initially turned on by default.

Identify the key components of a network.

Describe the need for authentication of users and devices as it relates to access permissions, privacy, and security.

Analyze the concepts, features, and behaviors illustrated by a simulation.

Connect data from a simulation to real-life events.

Define social engineering and discuss possible defenses.

Develop, test, and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process to solve a complex problem.

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.