Technology Standards for Students

To meet the challenge posed by the RIS curriculum, all work with technology is focused towards meeting six basic standards. When students use technology that reflects these standards, we believe that education is enhanced, by developing learning, expanding knowledge, and supporting growth.

Six Technology Standards
1. Basic Operations:
Students are capable of using the required hardware and software in ways that support the five other standards. Students have a level of computer competency that allows them to solve technical problems and learn new computing skills as technology develops.

2. Moral and Ethical Behavior:
Students exhibit behaviors that demonstrate proper understanding of the role of technology and how it should be utilized in society. While utilizing technology students demonstrate cooperation and respect for the work of others, and they provide assistance for others while maintaining the technology resources.

3. Productivity
Students use technology in ways that increase both the quantity and quality their work for school.Good productivity tools enable students to do basic work more efficiently, and complex work more effectively.

4. Communication
Students use technology to enhance or develop the interaction between them and their audiences. Students should be able to communicate effictively both linearly and non-linearly to varied audiences. Communication tools include email, the WorldWideWeb, multimedia, desktop publishing, and research.

5. Research
Students use technology to gain access to information in a variety of elctronic locations, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, indexes, reference manuals, magazines, image collections, and multimedia resources. Studernts should know how to search for and access relevant information on-line, in CDs and within a computer.

6. Problem Solving
Students use technology to brainstorm, develop ideas, analyze information, propose solutions, ask questions, or utilize knowledge in critical and complex ways. Students should be able to utilize these tool to develop and complete projects, assignments or other work in a timely manner.

 

Click to see the seven Characteristics of a technically literate student.