Students demonstrate comfort with technology, information research, and critical thinking skills. They also demonstrate the ability to use tools effectively for the discovery, acquisition, and evaluation of information as well as core computer tools for the manipulation and presentation of information in a creative and ethical manner.
- Students use accepted word processing techniques to produce a well-designed and esthetically pleasing formal document.
- Students use standard spreadsheet features to produce a representation and interpret numerical data.
- Students identify a topic; refine and formulate a research focus on that topic.
- Students describe and categorize the basic types of information resources available for a single topic.
- Students locate, retrieve, and evaluate information relevant to the research focus.
- Students organize and communicate research findings and conclusions of research focus.
- Students create an electronic presentation that discusses a single subject or conveys a message.
- Students create an original digital image.
- Students discuss an ethical issue related to technology and use of information.