DL Curriculum K-5

K-Grade 2

Communication, Collaboration, Innovation, and Creativity

ISS students will

  • effectively communicate ideas to multiple audiences using digital environments and media.

  • appropriately use social media and other collaborative tools for learning.

  • create original media products as a means of personal or group expression.

    • Recognise that ICT (Information and Communication Technology) can support and promote online collaboration.
    • Identify common equipment used to support online collaboration like: webcam, microphone, speakers.
    • Identify types of mobile devices like: smartphone, tablet.
    • In a collaborative group,  produce an audiovisual product in a curriculum area
    • Illustrate and communicate original ideas and stories using digital authoring tools.
    • In a collaborative group,  produce a digital presentation in a curriculum area.
    • Participate in a cooperative learning project in an online learning community.

Critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making: Data and Organization

ISS students will

  • identify, research, and collect data using digital tools and resources, and propose developmentally appropriate solutions.
  • use digital tools to explore, organize, and generate ideas and information.
    • Produce a digital visual thinking product in a curriculum area.
    • Describe and illustrate a content-related concept or process using a model, simulation, or concept-mapping software.
    • Conduct science experiments using digital instruments and measurement devices.

Digital Citizenship

ISS students will

  • model and practice safe, legal, and ethical behavior while collaborating, creating, and learning online.

    • Many websites ask for information that is private
    • People create and use passwords to keep their information safe.
    • We can develop online relationships with people that we know.
    • We can go to exciting places online, but we need to follow certain rules to remain safe.
      • comply with school expectations and protocols when using ICT
    • We have ownership over our creative work.
    • The Internet can be a place for sharing material; but it is not appropriate to copy large amounts of information.
      • put own name and date on something produced.
      • name the creators of different kinds of works (authors, illustrators, artists, musicians, etc.)
    • Email and social media can be used to communicate with real people within their schools, families, and communities.
    • People can connect with one another through the Internet.
      • Demonstrate the safe and cooperative use of technology.
      • Explore the similarities and differences between in-person and online communications, and write clear and respectful messages

Grades 3-5

Communication, Collaboration, Innovation, and Creativity

ISS students will

  • effectively communicate ideas to multiple audiences using digital environments and media.

  • appropriately use social media and other collaborative tools for learning.

  • create original media products as a means of personal or group expression.
    • Identify social media tools that support online collaboration like: social networks, wikis, forums and groups, blogs, micro blogs, content communities.
    • Outline ways that users can publish and share content online: blogs, microblogs, podcasts, images, audio and video clips.
    • Identify common examples of  productivity applications like: word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations,  office productivity, communications, media, design, mobile applications.  both web-based collaborative as well as offline.
    • Identify the main types of computers and devices  like: desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones, media players, digital cameras.
    • Identify the main types of integrated and external equipment like: printers, screens, scanners, keyboards, mouse/trackpad, webcam, speakers, microphone, docking station.
    • Identify main types of storage media like: internal hard disk, external hard disk, network drive, CD, DVD, USB, memory card, online cloud storage.
    • Define the term network. Outline the purpose of a network: to share, access data and devices securely.
    • Understand the concepts of downloading from, uploading to a network.
    • Understand the purpose of synchronising content.
    • Know that software can be installed locally or be available online.
      • In a collaborative group,  produce an audiovisual product in a curriculum area.
      • Create original animations or films documenting school, community, or local events.
      • Illustrate and communicate original ideas and stories using digital authoring tools.
      • Use collaborative digital authoring tools to present common curriculum content from multicultural perspectives.
      • In a collaborative group,  produce a digital presentation in a curriculum area.
      • Participate in a cooperative learning project in an online learning community.
      • Engage in learning activities with learners from multiple cultures through social media.

Critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making: Data and Organization

ISS students will

  • identify, research, and collect data using digital tools and resources, and propose developmentally appropriate solutions.
  • use digital tools to explore, organize, and generate ideas and information.
    • Produce a digital visual thinking product in a curriculum area.
    • Describe and illustrate a content-related concept or process using a model, simulation, or concept-mapping software.
    • Conduct science experiments using digital instruments and measurement devices.
    • Gather data, examine patterns, and apply information for decision making using digital tools and resources.

Digital Citizenship

ISS students will

  • model and practice safe, legal, and ethical behavior while collaborating, creating, and learning online.

    • We should think critically about the information we share online.
    • Spam can take many forms, and we need strategies to deal with it.
    • Some passwords are more secure than others, and help us to protect private information and online accounts.
    • We should not not reveal private information online to people we do not know.
    • We can stay safe online by choosing websites that are appropriate for us to visit, and by avoiding sites that are not appropriate.
    • Identify the potential dangers of meeting strangers and communicating online.
    • Identify appropriate vs. inappropriate places in cyber space, and make appropriate choices.
      • relate stranger danger to online environments and understand why access to certain websites is restricted
      • recognise the significance of private passwords and use and maintain passwords for access to files and school network
      • comply with school expectations and protocols when using ICT
    • Information that we put online leaves a digital footprint or “trail.” This trail can be big or small, helpful or hurtful, depending on how it is managed.
    • Copying the work of others and presenting it as one’s own is called plagiarism.
    • When using the words or ideas of others, we need to credit them by creating a citation.
    • Identify when and how it’s ok to use the work of others.
      • name the creators of different kinds of works (authors, illustrators, artists, musicians, etc.)
      • identify and acknowledge the owner/ creator of digital sources and cite references consistently following agreed conventions
    • The ability for people to communicate online can unite a community.
    • People can connect with one another through the Internet.
      • Demonstrate the safe and cooperative use of technology.
    • Children sometimes can act like bullies when they are online, but we can take action against this.
    • We may get online messages from other kids that can make them feel angry, hurt, sad, or fearful.
      • Explore the similarities and differences between in-person and online communications, and write clear and respectful messages.
      • Identify actions that will make them Upstanders in the face of cyberbullying.
      • Express how it feels to be cyberbullied, and identify how cyberbullying is similar to or different than in-person bullying.
      • Explore what it means to be responsible to and respectful of their offline and online communities as a way to learn how to be good digital citizens.
      • Collaboratively outline common expectations needed to build a strong digital citizenship community.