Our educational program will provide students with the foundation for meaningful lives and the resources to become responsible citizens in the 21st century. PUSD is committed to the acquisition, development and support of effective educational technology that provides students real world contexts for learning, connections to larger learning communities, and opportunities to individualize and apply knowledge.
We lean on three main frameworks to define our digital literacy scope and sequence to build 21st century learners: The Partnership for 21st Century Learning's technology, information and media literacy skills; the state of California's Digital Literacy guidelines which also reference programming; and the Computer Science Teacher's Association's Computer Science Standards the district adopted in 2014.
Taken in a whole, these frameworks may be summed up as the 5 C's: creativity, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and computational thinking.
Components taught in "Tech Class" and further supported by activities in classroom, library, and across the curriculum:
The Tri-School technology program is guided by the specific technology standards set forth by the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and additional needs identified by the district. The PUSD Tech Scope and Sequence is a living document that directs and influences the development of our curriculum and provides building blocks to develop 21st century graduates from PUSD. We continue to update our program to create an even stronger emphasis on computational thinking and collaboration skills through projects in computer science. Students will create work that involve coding and design.