High School 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

Connect and participate in online discussions about topics that encourage multiple perspectives on an issue with students and classrooms around the world.

Debate the advantages and disadvantages of technology in the workplace and global society in relation to its widespread use, accessibility, and humanities reliance on technology.

Use project management tools to organize individual and group tasks and reflect on participation and goal completion.

Collaborate with peers using technology to compile, synthesize, produce, and disseminate creative works.

Select and apply technology tools for research, information analysis, problem solving, and decision making in content learning.

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

Critique a variety of communication tools to effectively and efficiently communicate with a targeted audience and purpose.

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

Create and publish interdisciplinary artifacts and media-rich products, individually or collaboratively.

Apply principles of copyright, use digital citation tools and use strategies to avoid plagiarism when using the work of others as well as creating personal work.

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

Arrange data (e.g., images, diagrams, maps, graphs, infographics, videos, animations) from a variety of digital learning tools and resources to disseminate information to multiple audiences.

Critique a variety of communication tools to effectively and efficiently communicate with a targeted audience and purpose.

Implement and evaluate a communication plan to disseminate information to multiple audiences.

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

Design and create prototypes of technology-based solutions to real-world problems.

Apply logical thinking to solve a complex problem by breaking it down into manageable parts.

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

Analyze data collected or retrieved from a variety of digital learning tools and resources to determine if patterns or trends are present.

Deconstruct data into its component parts and describe how they connect.

Develop a product to explain a complex interdisciplinary issue.

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

Identifying, analyzing, and implementing possible solutions with the goal of achieving the most efficient and effective combination of steps and resources.

Identify and solve a STEM problem using design process.

Formulate steps to solve problems that enable the use of a computer and other tools to arrive at a solution.

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.

Evaluate immediate and long-range effects of ethical and unethical uses of technology.

Analyze the impact of social media on individuals and society.

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

Critique personal digital footprint.

Use proper citation strategies to give credit to images and texts.

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

Evaluate the need for technology policies on a local, national and global level.

Comply with copyright law in regard to media usage, citing sources, and can explain the principle of fair 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.

Investigate cyber-security issues in a technological society.

Apply safe practices in the sharing of personal information digitally and can explain how personal information may be stored by websites (ex: cookies).

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

Develop strategies for using digital learning tools and resources to plan, implement, and reflect upon a complex task.

Set personal learning goals and explore technologies to improve upon learning outcomes.

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

Develop a professional social network that relates to a potential chosen profession.

Work collaboratively with a group of peers in a digital setting using the strengths. Of each team member to improve the group’s end product.

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

Analyze feedback to improve upon an authentic artifact that demonstrates 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.

Using prior knowledge to troubleshoot common technology issues.

Offer to help peers when they can and accept help from others.

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.

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

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.

Compare and contrast methods for problem-solving and decision-making.

Develop strategies to plan, implement and reflect upon a complex task.

Implement, document and present the design process.

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

Formulate a technological solution using data-driven decision making.

Critically evaluate a design solution at multiple points of the design process and adjust processes and outcomes as needed for the desired outcome.

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

Gather and assess relevant information from a variety of digital resources.

Design a problem-based research project using technology to find and report information with properly cited sources.

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

Evaluate the accuracy, relevance, appropriateness, comprehensiveness, and bias of electronic resources.

Analyze information based on factors such as date of publication, author, and perspective.

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

Compile an organized set of resources using appropriate digital tools.

Use advanced search and filtering techniques to locate and compare sets of information using digital tools.

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

Investigate and apply simulations with real-world situations.

Utilize problem solving skills in a programming environment.

Demonstrate the ability to compile, apply problem solving to debugging and executing programs.

Employ advanced conventions for creation and design of a software program.

Demonstrate the ability to compile, apply problem solving to debugging and executing programs.

Examine software development processes.

Implement the syntactical components of a program.

Properly use language-fundamental commands and operations independently.

Demonstrate the ability to use basic elements of a specific language.

Employ basic arithmetic expressions in programs.

Demonstrate the ability to use data types in programs.

Incorporate functions/methods.

Apply control structures.

Demonstrate the ability to use relational and logical operators in programs.

Investigate conditional statements.

Implement loops in programs.

Integrate arrays.

Demonstrate the ability to use arrays in programs.

Demonstrate the ability to use strings in programs.

Implement object-oriented programming techniques.

Demonstrate the ability to use existing classes.

Demonstrate the ability to create user-defined classes.

Demonstrate proper design principles with classes.

Identify and use a programming environment.

Demonstrate knowledge of software concepts.

Demonstrate the ability to compile, debug, and execute programs.

Employ standard conventions for creation and design of a software program.

Demonstrate the ability to use a standard programming style.

Recognize software development processes.

Identify the syntactical components of a program.

Properly use language-fundamental commands and operations.

Demonstrate the ability to use basic elements of a specific language.

Employ basic arithmetic expressions in programs.

Demonstrate the ability to use data types in programs.

Incorporate functions/methods.

Apply control structures.

Demonstrate the ability to use relational and logical operators in programs.

Investigate conditional statements.

Implement loops in programs.

Explore career opportunities in programming.

Identify personal interests and abilities related to Computer Programming/Software Engineering careers.

Investigate career opportunities, trends, and requirements related to computer programming/software engineering careers.

Demonstrate job skills for programming industries.

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)

collaborate with external peers, experts, and others by using technology to compile, synthesize, produce, and disseminate information, models, and other creative works.

Adapt delivery of communication based on available information technologies.

Incorporate knowledge and enhanced usage skills to create a product.

Apply strategies for identifying and solving routine hardware and software issues.

Utilize a virtual learning environment as a strategy to build 21st century learning skills.

Investigate to apply expert systems, intelligent agents, and simulations in real-world situations.

Utilize online information resources routinely and efficiently to meet needs for collaboration, research, publication, communication, and productivity.

Select and apply technology tools for research, information analysis, problem solving, and decision making in content learning.

Organize and manage personal/professional information using technology tools. (e.g., finances, schedules, addresses, purchases, correspondence).

Design a research project using a variety of technologies to find information to solve a real-world problem.

Independently evaluates the accuracy, relevance, appropriateness, comprehensiveness, and bias of electronic information sources.

Compare and contrast how societal changes mirror innovations and emerging technologies.

Predict how the evolution of technology will influence the design and development of future technology.

Analyze technology systems to make informed choices.

Analyze intended and unintended impacts of a system.

Integrate technology into school, home and community.

Evaluate technologies that increase educational and workplace opportunities

Compare and contrast other problem-solving and decision-making methods.

Formulate a technological solution using data-driven decision making.

Evaluate the need for acceptable use policies.

Compile a list of immediate and long-range effects of ethical and unethical uses of technology on individual and society.

Analyze advantages and disadvantages of widespread use and reliance on technology in the workplace and in society as a whole.

compare and contrast society's influence on technology and technology's influence on society.