Students develop positive attitudes towards technology uses that support lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits, and productivity. Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity. Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, preparing publications and producing other creative works. Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences. Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.
Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.
Students use technology tools to process data and reports results. Students evaluate and select new information resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness to specific tasks. Students use technology resources for solving problems and making informed decisions. Students employ technology in the development of strategies for solving problems in the real world. Students will learn classroom rules and procedures, rubric grading system, computer terminology, parts function, essential knowledge, disk formatting, loading software, keyboarding, Mavis Beacon typing skills, basic word processing, and the draw program.