Technology applications focuses on creating, accessing, manipulating, utilizing, communicating, and publishing information during the learning process. Using the Technology Applications TEKS will provide guidance for schools as they prepare students to be lifelong learners and citizens in a technological age. The knowledge and skills gained through this curriculum may be applied to foundation and other enrichment curriculum areas for Grades K-12. Within each grade cluster, there are four strands with knowledge and skills and student expectations for each strand. Through the study of technology applications foundations, including technology-related terms, concepts, and data input strategies, students learn to make informed decisions about technologies and their applications.
Students communicate information in different formats and to diverse audiences.
A variety of technologies will be used. Students will analyze and evaluate the results. Through these common strands, connections to all foundation and enrichment curriculum are made. The K-2 Technology Applications TEKS are taught at all BISD elementary campuses. Elementary K-2 students have an opportunity to use computers and gain basic technology applications foundations and skills such as inputting information, beginning touch keyboarding and becoming familiar with the computer.