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To
enable learners to meet Student Technology Standards adopted
by the School Board in October 2000, schools will provide
the following activities.
Standard
1. Basic technology operations
- Regular,
ongoing, and flexible access to computers throughout the
school year
- Keyboarding
instruction and practice. Key emphasis on grades 3-4, 6
and 9, with yearly practice sessions conducted from elementary
classrooms and English classes.
Standard
2. Responsible and ethical use
- Continuous
emphasis on responsibility and ethics.
- Copyright
recognition and citations used properly in research projects.
Standard
3. Effective and creative communications
- Planned
use of variety of media throughout the curriculum.
- Yearly
multiple writing experiences using technology for the full
writing process (see EALR's and District Language Arts Curriculum).
Standard
4. Thinking, learning, and producing
- Technology
available and a regular part of lesson plans
- Use
of spreadsheets, databases and other tools for understanding,
meaning-making with data, and production
Standard
5. Research, problem-solving, decision-making
- Students
complete at least one research project every semester
, (a culminating research project which involves
the full research cycle (based on essential question, questioning,
planning, gathering, sorting, synthesizing, evaluating,
reporting), keyboarding (Standard 1), writing (Standard
3), making meaning with data (Standard 4), proper citations
(Standard 2), and presentation (Standards 3 and 5).
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