Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 3

DLCS18.3.18

Identify a broad range of digital devices, the services they provide, and appropriate uses for them.

COS Examples

Examples: Computers, smartphones, tablets, robots, e-textiles, driving directions apps that access remote map services, digital personal assistants that access remote information services.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • that a digital device is physical equipment with a computing component.
  • there are many different digital devices and each has its own use.
  • there are appropriate and inappropriate ways to use these digital devices.
  • new types of digital devices are being developed everyday.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • identify a broad range of digital devices.
  • identify the services that digital devices provide.
  • identify the appropriate uses for the digital devices.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • there are many types of digital devices.
  • there are digital devices that serve a variety of purposes.
  • all digital devies have an appropriate way to be used.

Vocabulary

  • digital device
  • services
  • appropriate
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