Targeted Performance Indicators & Mastery Objectives Grades K-4

1. Technology operations and concepts

• Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology systems.
• Students are proficient in the use of technology.

2. Social, ethical, and human issues, digital citizenship

• Students understand the ethical, cultural, and societal issues related to technology.
• Students practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software.
• Students develop positive attitudes toward technology uses that support lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits, and productivity.

3. Creativity and Innovation

• Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
• Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works.

4. Communication and Collaboration

• Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences.
• Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.

5. Research and Information Retrieval

• Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.
• Students evaluate and select new information resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness for specific tasks.

6. Critical thinking and problem solving and decision making

• Students use technology resources for solving problems and making informed decisions.
• Students employ technology in the development of strategies for solving problems in the real world.

Targeted Performance Indicators & Mastery Objectives Grades 5-8

1. Students will use computers and related technologies to create work products which best convey expected outcomes, making the appropriate choice of software to use. Students will:

• Use productivity software including word processing, spreadsheet, data base, publishing, painting, drawing, page layout, presentation and web based tools
• Use formatting options for text and images to achieve a quality product.
• Use digital cameras, scanners, and other technological tools as needed.

2. Students will effectively and efficiently manipulate data and images, properly storing, organizing and printing as needed. Students will:

• Save documents and data to my documents locally, zip, server, shared folders, and backup media( USB, zip) as needed understanding the role of Save As, a way to access different options
• Save documents in multiple file formats for cross-platform accessibility and to create the home-school connection (e.g.. .pdf, doc,.rtf, jpg)
• Use folders to organize saved work and demonstrate proper management of these saved files

• Print documents to the appropriate printer, using print preview to check, ensuring a product that is complete to conserve print resources.

3. Students will become effective in using research and communication tools as a way of obtaining information, evaluating its validity and presenting that information to a wider audience. Students will:

• Access online resources learning appropriate strategies in using search engines
• Understand domain names and learn how to question site reliability.
• Demonstrate appropriate Internet Safety strategies as they interact with the world
• Create presentations combining text and images in various programs, developing skills to transfer content into a clear and audience friendly format.
• Use e-mail, blogs and other communication tools as needed to access and disseminate information.

4. Students will use problem-solving strategies to handle troubleshooting issues, diagnosing problems that occur, seeking the appropriate steps to find solutions. Students will:

• Develop strategies to deal with troubleshooting technology problems, developing independence as a user.
• Utilize other help resources, both on the computer and from other individuals as needed and being able to articulate the problem clearly.
• Develop strategies to choose the appropriate technology for a specific need
• Develop an understanding of computer components and peripherals as needed to become better users and consumers of technology.

Targeted Performance Indicators & Mastery Objectives 9-12

1. Students will use computers and related technologies to create work products which best convey expected outcomes, making the appropriate choice of software to use. Students will:

• Use professional productivity software: word processing, spreadsheet, publishing, photo manipulation and editing, page layout, presentation, etc.
• Manipulate text, images, and multimedia to enhance appearance.
• Demonstrated at each grade level using a rubric as part of each department’s projects.
• Demonstrate competency with digital cameras, scanners, digital video cameras, digital projectors and other technological tools as needed.
• Optional demonstration using established rubrics as part of each department's projects.

2. Students will effectively and efficiently manipulate data and images, properly storing, organizing and printing as needed. Students will

• Save documents and data to my documents folder locally, server, and backup (USB) media as needed.
• This is an expectation when students turn in work, back up work and transfer work to teacher drop boxes.
• Save documents in multiple file formats for cross-platform accessibility (e.g. .doc, .pdf, .ppt, .xls, .txt, .rtf).
• This is an expectation when students turn in work or share work between platforms.
• Develop responsibility for organization of needed documents and data.
• This is an expectation when students turn in work.
• Print documents to the appropriate printer with consideration of effective layout and pagination.

• This is an expectation when students turn in work.

3. Students will become effective in using research and communication tools as a way of obtaining information, evaluating its validity and presenting that information to a wider audience. Students will:

• Access online resources, using research databases and online periodical databases.
• Students will use refined research techniques. Students will begin research using Marvel Databases and Newsbank when appropriate.
• Evaluate online resources for relevance, accuracy, and effectiveness.
• Freshmen students will take the online assessments about website relevance, accuracy, and effectiveness.(see 21st Century)
• Accurately cite electronic reference material.
• Students will use recommended online or written checklists for web site bibliography.
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• Demonstrate competency with using text, images, animation, video, and audio to communicate ideas as needed.
• Students will follow accepted rubrics for their projects in each department.
• Collaborate online to collect, analyze, and publish experimental processes and results.
• Students will blog, podcast and collaborate while collecting, analyzing, and publishing experimental processes and results across the content areas.
• Use communication software to share data or information with a wider audience.
• Students will blog, podcast, webcast, or Skype in order to share data and information on a worldwide scale.

4. Students will use problem-solving strategies to handle troubleshooting issues, diagnosing problems that occur, seeking the appropriate steps to find solutions. Students will:

• Demonstrate competency in user-level troubleshooting.
• Demonstrate the ability to choose the appropriate technology for a specific need.
• Understand basic operation of computer components and peripherals as needed.
• Seek help from and provide help for other students and teachers as needed
• Students will reflect on this in their portfolio folder.

5. Social, ethical, and human issues

• Students understand the ethical, cultural, and societal issues related to technology.
• Students practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software.
• Students develop positive attitudes toward technology uses that support lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits, and productivity.
• Internet Safety-
• Students will understand the ramifications of sharing information on the Internet.
• Students will demonstrate safety practices with their web presences.
• Students will discuss how predators lurk teen spaces in Gr. 10 Health Class.

Ethics- Students will understand and explain the ethics of using copyrighted material understand and explain how to respect work that belongs to others through the library instruction program.