Students use advanced features of the Web and information and communication software. Students demonstrate effective use of skills on input devices. Students use school media center on-line catalogs to find information. 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.