Parkway Codes

Today’s students must be prepared to thrive in a constantly evolving technological landscape. The ISTE Standards for Students are designed to empower student voice and ensure that learning is a student-driven process. Coding skills are a great way to include the ISTE Student Standards as part of the learning process and have many applications that are vital to being a Creative Communicator, Computational Thinker and Innovative Designer.

Creative Communicator: Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.

• 6a Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
• 6b Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
• 6c Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.
• 6d Students publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences.

Computational Thinker: Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.

• 5a Students formulate problem definitions suited for technology-assisted methods such as data analysis, abstract models and algorithmic thinking in exploring and finding solutions.
• 5b Students collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.
• 5c Students break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.
• 5d Students understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.

Innovative Designer: Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.

• 4a Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.
• 4b Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.
• 4c Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
• 4d Students exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended problems.