This letter contains information that may be of interest to high school principals, counselors, and journalism departments as well as technology directors and curriculum coordinators. There have been questions regarding the courses that count for this credit. Only the seventeen courses approved by the State Board of Education count for this credit. There are no substitutions for courses that count for state graduation credit.
Innovative courses count for state elective credit only.
The courses in Technology Applications represent more advanced levels and are more rigorous than other technology-related knowledge and skills taught at lower grade levels. While computers and related technology are used as an instructional tool in addressing the content of many courses, such as Advanced Journalism or Yearbook, these courses do not address their use in a broad enough context to allow for the teaching and learning of all the essential knowledge and skills required of students in the courses approved for Technology Applications graduation credit. Students could also take Multimedia with the products of the course being a yearbook on CD-ROM or Webmastering with a web enabled newsletter.