Grade
Concept/Content
Information and Communications Technologies
- text-based coding
- binary representation of various data types, including text, sound, pictures, video
- drag-and-drop mobile development
- programming modular components
- development and collaboration in a cloud-based environment
- design and function of networking hardware and topology, including wired and wireless network router types, switches, hubs, wireless transfer systems, and client-server relationships
- functions of operating systems, including mobile, open source, and proprietary systems
- current and future impacts of evolving web standards and cloud-based technologies
- design for the web
- strategies for curating and managing personal digital content, including management, personalization, organization, maintenance, contribution, creation, and publishing of digital content
- relationships between technology and social change
- strategies to manage and maintain personal learning networks, including content consumption and creation
- keyboarding techniques
Elaboration
HTML, CSS, JavaScript
for example, Vizwik
for example, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, LEGO Mindstorms
for example, Cloud 9, GitHub
for example, NFID, Bluetooth, mobile payments
potential to support collaboration, sharing, and communication; data storage and privacy
digital creation and manipulation of videos and images for a web-based purpose
for example, local and global impacts of evolving communication and mobile devices, socio-economic digital divide, technology and gender, social media and social movements, social media and politics, inequality of access, technology and democracy, information as a commodity
personalized digital instructional tools to share and authenticate learning
web forums, tutorials, videos, digital resources, listservs, global communities, group communication and etiquette, online learning, MOOCS, open courseware, broadcasting
for example, physical hand and foot placement, posture, development of touch typing skills, use of “home row” ASDFJKL techniques
keywords
text-based coding
drag-and-drop mobile development
modular components
cloud-based environment
wireless transfer systems
impacts
design for the web
relationships
personal learning networks
content consumption and creation
keyboarding techniques