Standards - Digital Literacy & Computer Science

Analyze different modes of social engineering and their effectiveness.

Advocate for positive, safe, legal, and ethical habits when creating and sharing digital content.

Cite evidence of the positive and negative effects of data permanence on personal and professional digital identity.

Evaluate the impact of digital globalization on public perception and ways Internet censorship can affect free and equitable access to information.

Analyze current events related to computing and their effects on education, the workplace, individuals, communities, and global society.

Critique computational artifacts, including options for accessibility for all users, with respect to the needs of a global culture.

Present content designed for specific audiences through an appropriate medium.

Communicate and publish individually or collaboratively to persuade peers, experts, or community about issues and problems.

Type 40 words per minute with 95% accuracy using appropriate keyboarding techniques.

Critique the impacts of censorship as it impacts global society.

Examine an artifact that demonstrates bias through distorting, exaggerating, or misrepresenting data and redesign it using factual, relevant, unbiased content to more accurately reflect the truth.

Differentiate types of data storage and apply most efficient structure.

Encrypt and decrypt various data.

Design a digital artifact to propose a solution for a content-related problem.

Compare and contrast common methods of cybersecurity.

Create a model that represents a system.

Create a simulation that tests a specific model.

Analyze assistive technologies and how they improve the quality of life for users.

Develop a logical argument for and against artificial intelligence.

Create an artifact to solve a problem using ideation and iteration in the problem-solving process.

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.