Category 1: Student Learning

Goal 1: COLLABORATION, COMMUNICATION & PROBLEM-SOLVING

Students will use a variety of digital tools to broaden perspectives and enrich learning by effectively collaborating with others locally and globally.

Objectives:

Students will demonstrate collaboration skills locally and globally utilizing technology. (BrightBytes)
Students will use a variety of digital tools (apps, devices) to communicate complex ideas. (BrightBytes)

Goal 2: ETHICAL USE

Students will recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and will demonstrate their ability to act in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.

Objectives:

Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and demonstrate their ability to act in ways that are safe, legal and ethical. (School Digital Citizenship Plan and BrightBytes)

Goal 3: CRITICAL THINKING and MEDIA LITERACY

Students will understand how to evaluate and leverage a variety of Internet search engines and databases in order to guide independent inquiry and research that is valid and reliable.

Objectives:

Students will demonstrate information literacy by using a variety of databases. (Firewall logs)
Students will be able to evaluate the validity of online resources including news sources and websites and will give credit appropriately. (BrightBytes)
Students will learn that traditional literacies are evolving; new technologies require new literacy skills (blogging, social networking, podcasting, video-making, Twitter). (BrightBytes)

Goal 4: CREATIVITY

Students will create and publish multimedia artifacts for an authentic audience.

Objectives:

1. Students will create and publish multimedia artifacts for an authentic audience. (Brightbytes)

Goal 5: TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS

Students will continue to learn computer literacy and computational skills and will independently troubleshoot and solve problems with creative solutions.

Objectives:

Students use basic computer skills for efficiency: keyboarding, shortcuts (command-F), bookmarks, managing multiple open windows, accessing online help guides, etc. (Brightbytes)
Students will learn strategies for problem solving software and hardware issues and issues related to operations/maintenance, such as rebooting, choosing the correct program, locating where programs are stored (Portal), changing cables, using alternate browsers, etc. (Helpdesk tickets/Brightbytes)

Goal 6: PERSONALIZED LEARNING

Students will understand how to critically leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving, and demonstrating competency in their learning.

Objectives:

Students understand that they can utilize technology to learn anything anytime anywhere. (Data Tool/Brightbytes)
Students use technology to take an active role in their learning plan. (Data Tool/Brightbytes)

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