Grade 6 Technology Applications South Dakota Standards

Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.

Knowledge Constructor

Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.

Global Collaborator

Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.

Creative Communicator

Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.

Innovative Designer

Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.

Digital Citizen

Students develop and employ strategies for demonstrating an understanding of and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.

Computational Thinker

Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.

Empowered Learner

Work with librarians and educators in media literacy to demonstrate an understanding of how to locate digital and non- digital information and resources.

Students evaluate and select a variety of platforms and tools to create products and communicate with others to appropriately complete tasks.

Identify a variety of platforms and digital tools before, during, and after completion of a task.

Use a variety of tools to communicate their learning effectively.

Students create original artifacts or responsibly remix or repurpose existing digital resources.

Create an audio and/or visual project using online materials that are cited correctly.

Students select the appropriate medium and communicate clear, complex ideas through the use of visualizations for an intended audience.

Select from a list of tools to create data visualizations that are easily understood by their peers.

Students select appropriate technology to analyze data, create models, and problem-solve through the use of logical thinking.

With support, analyze data to create models.

Students use the computational thought process to represent data, deconstruct problems, identify key information, and formulate solutions.

Gather data and determine if patterns or trends are present.

Students will recognize basic concepts of automation including decomposition, abstraction, use algorithmic thinking, and pattern recognition.

Create algorithms to demonstrate an understanding of logical processes and use reasoning.

Identify technology automation.

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the importance of creating and maintaining a positive online identity and the permanence and future impact of their online and offline decisions when using digital technology.

Implement basic precautions to protect themselves and others when using digital technology.

Identify the risks of sharing information online and assess the importance of a positive digital footprint.

Recognize and discuss ways to maintain personal safety and avoid online victimization.

Students will practice positive, safe, legal, and ethical behavior when using technology.

Recognize the impact of cyberbullying in online communication, relationships, and mental health.

Identify the positive and negative impact the use of technology can have on personal, professional, and community relationships.

Students demonstrate and promote respect for using and sharing the intellectual property of others and themselves.

Demonstrate an understanding of intellectual property and terms of use.

Students demonstrate an understanding of how personal data is collected, tracked, and used, how to maintain privacy, and how to safely share it online.

Define security vulnerabilities to protect personal privacy.

Demonstrate an understanding of when and when not to click on links, pop-ups, and advertisements while using the Internet.

Distribute tasks and maintain a project timeline when collaboratively developing artifacts.

Students will develop technology strategies to achieve and reflect on learning goals to improve outcomes.

Identify personal learning goals while using digital tools with teacher assistance.

Utilize teacher-selected digital tools and resources to assist them in their learning.

Use digital tools to provide feedback to peers.

With or without support, students build networks of experts and peers to enhance their learning.

Identify and engage in school provided virtual learning environments.

Customize their learning in collaboration with an educator.

Students improve learning by seeking feedback from others using digital tools and other resources to demonstrate learning in a variety of ways.

Use teacher-provided interactive digital tools to gather data to help make decisions.

Actively seek performance feedback from teachers and peers using digital tools to improve and demonstrate learning.

Students demonstrate an understanding of how technology works, know how to independently troubleshoot, and are not afraid to take a risk in choosing and utilizing new or current technologies for learning.

Demonstrate the use of keyed technology to produce a product in any learning environment.

Use a checklist of items to consider when troubleshooting problems.

Navigate a variety of digital tools and transfer their knowledge to learn new skills.

Demonstrate knowledge of a variety of word processing tools to complete a task.

Students will use collaborative digital tools to connect with people of different backgrounds, cultures, and points of view to examine local, national, and global issues.

Use a variety of digital tools to collaborate and communicate with peers, experts, and other audiences.

Use digital tools to connect with people of different backgrounds, cultures and different points of view.

Use digital tools to gather information, create products, and present material regarding local, national, and global issues.

In a collaborative team, students will perform a variety of roles to complete a project or solve a problem using digital tools.

Identify group roles to actively participate and take ownership for the work of a team.

Collaborate using a variety of digital tools to present group findings and results to local or global audiences.

With or without the use of technology, students can apply a design process to generate ideas, consider possible solutions, create a plan to solve a problem, and share their innovative ideas with others.

Identify and apply a selected design process with teacher support.

Students persevere when researching and solving open- ended problems and use trial-and-error strategies to test and refine prototypes.

Explain how optimization is the process of making a prototype through trial and error as fully functional and effective as possible.

Demonstrate an understanding that the design process is iterative.

Students employ appropriate research techniques to effectively locate credible resources to help them in the learning process.

Explain the differences among various search engines and how they rank results.

Students learn how to evaluate sources for currency, authority, accuracy, perspective and relevance.

Demonstrate knowledge that not all online sources are accurate and credible.

With support, select online resources based on a list of criteria.

Students use a variety of strategies and digital tools to organize information and make meaningful connections.

Locate and collect resources from a variety of sources and organize into collections for a wide range of projects and purposes.

Students use digital tools to explore real world problems and issues and pursue potential solutions.

Develop digital materials to promote personal or real- world understanding.

Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of external and internal Acceptable Use Policies or Terms of Use.

Students determine the reliability and relevancy of Information

Students use technology to locate and acquire information.

Information Literacy

Students exchange information and ideas for an identified purpose through Information Technologies.

Students understand the purpose of information technologies to communicate with a variety of collaborators.

Information & Communication Technology Processes

Students evaluate and select information tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks

Students use technology to enhance learning, extend capability, and promote creativity.

Students recognize and demonstrate skills in operating technological systems.

Information & Communication Technology Tools

Students investigate the advantages and disadvantages of technology.

Students understand the safe, ethical, legal, and societal issues related to technology.

Social Interactions in Information & Communication Technology

Students understand the purpose and demonstrate the use of the design process in problem solving.

Students analyze the relationships and the connections between technologies in different fields of study and how they apply to communities.

Students analyze the parts of a technological system in terms of input, process, output, and feedback.

Students understand the history and progression of technology in relation to the development and design of future technology.

Nature, Concepts and Systems (systems thinking, interactions, and design)

Identify the reasons for using technology tools for interpersonal interactions.

Compare and contrast the effects of different forms of technology on different audiences.

Demonstrate touch-type at 20 gwam with 2 or fewer errors per minute in a 3 minute time period.

Investigate the functionality of various storage devices providing rationale for their uses.

Demonstrate ways to present and publish information using a variety of common applications.

Incorporate the use of software features that demonstrate a broader understanding of the software.

Differentiate versions of software and file formats.

Describe the organizational structure of searchable resources.

Select online sources based on a list of criteria.

Compare technology from the past to the present as a progression of input, process, output.

Analyze the processes of technology systems.

Identify careers in various technology areas.

Demonstrate the iterative nature of the design process.

Apply basic software/hardware solutions to protect themselves and others when using Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).

Analyze how adoption of technological advancements produces change.