K-Grade 2
Communication, Collaboration, Innovation, and Creativity
ISS students will
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effectively communicate ideas to multiple audiences using digital environments and media.
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appropriately use social media and other collaborative tools for learning.
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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
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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
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effectively communicate ideas to multiple audiences using digital environments and media.
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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
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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.