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Content design opportunities Computer Information Systems 11 No CCG
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Curricular Competency Analyze the role technologies play in societal change Computer Information Systems 11 Applied Technologies
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Curricular Competency Evaluate impacts, including unintended negative consequences, of choices made about technology use Computer Information Systems 11 Applied Technologies
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Curricular Competency Explore existing, new, and emerging tools, technologies, and systems to evaluate their suitability for their design interests Computer Information Systems 11 Applied Technologies
Keyword: technologies Elaboration: tools that extend human capabilities
Curricular Competency Identify and assess skills needed for design interests, and develop specific plans to learn or refine them over time Computer Information Systems 11 Applied Skills
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Curricular Competency Apply safety procedures for themselves, co-workers, and users in both physical and digital environments Computer Information Systems 11 Applied Skills
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Curricular Competency Sharing
  • Share progress while creating to increase opportunities for feedback
  • Critically reflect on their design thinking and processes, and identify new design goals
  • Assess ability to work effectively both as individuals and collaboratively while implementing project management processes
 Computer Information Systems 11 Applied Design
Keyword: Share Elaboration: may include showing to others, use by others, giving away, or marketing and selling
Curricular Competency Making
  • Identify appropriate tools, technologies, materials, processes, and time needed for production, and where/how these could be available
  • Use project management processes when working individually or collaboratively to coordinate production
 Computer Information Systems 11 Applied Design
Keyword: project management processes Elaboration: setting goals, planning, organizing, constructing, monitoring, and leading during execution
Curricular Competency Testing
  • Identify most appropriate feedback and possible sources of feedback
  • Develop an appropriate test of the prototype
  • Collect feedback to critically evaluate design and make changes to product design or processes
  • Iterate the prototype or abandon the design idea
 Computer Information Systems 11 Applied Design
Keyword: sources of feedback Elaboration: may include peers; users; First Nations, Métis, or Inuit community experts; other experts and professionals both online and offline
Keyword: appropriate test Elaboration: includes evaluating the degree of authenticity required for the setting of the test, deciding on an appropriate type and number of trials, and collecting and compiling data
Curricular Competency Prototyping          
  • Analyze the design for life cycle and evaluate its impacts
  • Construct prototypes, making changes to tools, materials, and procedures as needed
  • Record iterations of prototyping
 Computer Information Systems 11 Applied Design
Keyword: impacts Elaboration: including the social and environmental impacts of extraction and transportation of raw materials, manufacturing, packaging, transportation to markets, servicing or providing replacement parts, expected usable lifetime, and reuse or recycling of component materials
Keyword: iterations Elaboration: repetitions of a process with the aim of approaching a desired result
Curricular Competency Ideating
  • Identify gaps to explore a design
  • Critically analyze how competing social, ethical, and sustainability considerations impact design
  • Generate ideas and add to others’ ideas to create possibilities, and prioritize them for prototyping
  • Work with users throughout the design process
 Computer Information Systems 11 Applied Design
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Curricular Competency Defining
  • Establish a point of view for a chosen design opportunity
  • Identify potential users, intended impact, and possible unintended negative consequences
  • Make inferences about premises and constraints that define the technologies
 Computer Information Systems 11 Applied Design
Keyword: constraints Elaboration: limiting factors, such as available technology, expense, environmental impact, copyright
Curricular Competency Understanding context
  • Conduct user-centred research to determine technology design opportunities and barriers
 Computer Information Systems 11 Applied Design
Keyword: user-centred research Elaboration: research done directly with potential users to understand how they do things and why, their physical and emotional needs, how they think about the world, and what is meaningful to them
Big Ideas Becoming more proficient in a new language enables us to explore global issues. German 12 No CCG
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Big Ideas Exploring diverse forms of cultural expression promotes a greater understanding and appreciation of cultures worldwide. German 12 No CCG
Keyword: forms of cultural expression Elaboration: representing the experience of the people from whose culture they are drawn; for example, celebrations, customs, folklore, language use, traditions, and creative works (e.g., books, paintings, pictures, sculpture, theatre, dance, poetry and prose, filmmaking, musical composition, architecture)

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