Uses word processing and desktop publishing tools to produce - journals, scripts, reports, surveys, essays, short stories, classnotes, news articles, poems, business forms, mail merge, letters, contracts, agendas, group writing, brochures, catalogs, storyboards, narrative to explain data. Select, manipulate and interpret data from data bases to publish a report that illustrates a point of view. Collect on-line data from a remote source and use it in reports. Write questions to be used to interrogate a data base to obtain specific information that is needed for a report. Use spreadsheet tools and graphing calculators to track and analyze collected data, develop tables and graphic displays to communicate data, develop simulation models to make predictions, estimates and projections, prepare long range budgets, do cost analysis of a project, merge data into letters, forms, and reports.
Students are aware of social and ethical issues that arise from the impact of computers on society.
Take turns using the technology. Understand and respect copyright laws regarding software. Understand and model ethics related to appropriate use and intellectual property. Can identify contributions of various cultures to technology development. Model ethical behavior and acceptable practice in the use of technology and technological resources.