General goal for high school students: Use technology within all content areas to collaborate, communicate, generate innovative ideas, create original works, and investigate and solve problems.
- Demonstrating proficient keyboarding skills
- Understanding of operating system tools, applications, and storage devices
- Use of a variety of common applications and productivity tools
- Creating products combining text, images, sound, music, and video
- Creating and publishing stories, games, animations, problems, and solutions
- Creating Web pages
- Use of spreadsheet and concept-mapping software
- Use of interactive tools to design polls or surveys to gather data
- Making contributions to blogs, wikis, and other digital collaborative forums
- Use of online databases or simulation software to interpret and predict trends
- Increasing knowledge about many cultures through digital content
- Communicating with multiple audiences through a variety of formats and media
- Increasing understanding of a local or global issue
- Researching and using information fluently
- Choosing appropriate search engines, directories, and online applications
- Selecting appropriate, relevant sources for a purpose or audience
- Analysis and synthesis of information to make decisions or develop solutions
- Assessing the credibility and validity of online sources
- Use of bibliography tools to cite sources from digital sources
- Reporting and sharing results or solutions
- Exploring ways to receive feedback from multiple, appropriate audiences
- Demonstrate understanding and avoidance of potential online dangers
- Understanding health hazards of frequent technology use
- Demonstrating safe and legal use of online sites and information
- Use of passwords, virus prevention, and other protective procedures
- Understanding risks of social networking sites; safe sharing of personal information online
- Understanding privacy issues and how data are kept and available publicly
- Practicing ethical and respectful behavior online
- Careful, responsible use and maintenance of digital equipment
- Demonstrating openness to learning new technologies and procedure