Students use electronic mail to communicate. Student can describe the uses of information technology outside the school setting in various professions and industries. Students extend their learning into the community using community resources. Students evaluate, select and use various media for presentations based upon appropriateness to task and purpose. Students can make decisions about information they find from a variety of sources and determine which is most useful and relevant to their purposes.
Students use both technology tools and technology resources across the curriculum.
Students use spreadsheet programs to create and select the graph best representing the data they need to analyze for class projects. Students discuss news and events in the world of information technology with such tools as on-line news providers. Students cite useful information found from electronic information sources to assist them with projects or assignments. Students demonstrate the ability to translate data and information drawn from technology-based resources into meaningful and useful information. Students evaluate information drawn from technology resources for its reliability and validity.