Canadian Academy K-12 Student Information & Communications Technology Curriculum Standards

1. Demonstrate proper use and treatment of equipment.
2. Cooperate with others when using technology.
3. Discuss the school's technology policy. (e.g. AUP for elementary)
4. Discuss Internet Safety Rules.
5. Describe and explain the right of ownership of created work.

1. Discuss basic issues related to responsible use of information and technology.
2. Describe consequences of inappropriate and/or unethical use of information and technology.
3. Adhere to the CA elementary AUP.
4. Acknowledge sources of information.
1.     Record the source of information.
2.     Produce correctly formatted bibliographies.
3.     Quote or paraphrase information sources, citing them appropriately.
5. Describe the role of the media in focusing attention on events, in forming opinion on issues, and influencing decisions.

1. Exhibit legal and ethical behaviors when using information and technology.
2. Explain the legal and ethical consequences of information and technology misuse.
3. Adhere to the school technology policies (AUP).
4. Discuss and explain copyright issues.
5. Explain the concept of intellectual property rights
6. Correctly document both digital and nondigital information sources using APA style.
7. describe the role of the media in focusing attention on events, in forming opinion on issues, and influencing decisions.
8. Research and evaluate the accuracy, relevance, appropriateness, comprehensiveness, and bias of information sources.

1. Identify capabilities and limitations of contemporary and emerging technology resources and assess the potential of these systems and services to address personal, lifelong learning, and workplace needs.
2. Analyze advantages and disadvantages of widespread use and reliance on technology in the workplace and in society as a whole.
3. Demonstrate and advocate for legal and ethical behaviors among peers, family, and community regarding the use of technology and information.

1. Locate and choose appropriate “ER” fiction and non-fiction books.
2. Locate and choose appropriate non-fiction books related to curriculum and interest in the general collection.
3. Identify and explain the information on the title and verso pages, the table of contents, and the index.
4. Locate the reference section and be able to identify the type of books shelved in this section.
5. Create a simple bibliography.
6. Locate and use a junior encyclopedia to find information.
7. Locate and use an appropriate dictionary.
8. Locate and use an appropriate atlas.

1. Identify all call number abbreviations and locate all library materials independently.
2. Use boolean search skills to find library books and materials.
3. Conduct a boolean search using Sirs Discoverer and Wold Book online encyclopedia.
4. Locate information using EBSCO and Global Newsbank.
5. Describe and use the elements of evaluating a website, using "who, what, where, when, why".
6. Locate and use the World Almanac for research
7. Compare and contrast various newspapers, in particular, the International Herald Tribune and USA Today.
8. Compare and contrast various encyclopedias, identifying basic features. 
9. Conduct an expanded keyboard search using the online library catalog.

1. Use library resources to support research as well as enrich personal interests.
2. Identify the basic types of information sources.
3. Select and use information sources critically and competently.
4. Understand the structure, organization and use of almanacs, newspapers, periodicals, encyclopedias, search engines, and web reference sites.
5. Use primary and secondary sources, determining the nature and usefulness of each.
6. Use electronic databases, such as Sirs Knowledge Source, Global Newsbank, and EBSCO, and interpret the information found there.
7. Conduct advance searches using Boolean Operators "AND," "OR," and "NOT."
8. Identify tools used in media to influence culture and society.
9. Evaluate and annotate information sources critically and competently.
10. Who wrote it, and was he/she competent to write it?
11. What was the purpose of the information, e.g. inform, persuade, entertain, etc.?
12. When was it written or updated?
13. Where did the author get his/her information?

1. Access information efficiently and effectively.
2. Evaluate information critically and competently.
3. Use information accurately and creatively.
4. Pursue information related to personal interests.
5. Recognize the importance of information to a democratic society.

1. Move between applications.
2. Create new folders with simple names.
3. Change applications using the finder and quit currently running applications.
4. Use a mouse to highlight text and graphics.
5. Start, restart, and shutdown the computer properly.
6. With guidance, select from known software to perform a familiar task.
7. Use patterns and line fill features.

1. Applications and File Management
1. Make subfolders to hold multiple items for specific projects.
2. Log onto public folders and other relevant folders on the network.
3. Utilize keyboard shortcuts.
4. Do a force quit or force restart.
2. Computer Hardware
1. Use essential computer jargon and vocabulary.
2. Upload information from various peripherals.
3. Manually eject a CD Rom.
4. Recognize a paper jam in the printer.
3. Databases
1. Use CA online database, such as SIRS Discoverer.
2. Use various online resources, such as the World Almanac.
3. Use keywords to search for information.
4. Digital Video Production
1. Use a digital still or video camera to capture images.
2. Upload the captured image to a computer.
3. Edit, add titles and transitions with assistance.
4. Design small video projects for classroom presentations using video editing software.
5. Plan to use simple special effects.
6. Insert sound into the desired location in a video.
5. Graphic Design
1. Use all basic drawing and painting tools.
2. Import graphics, use computer writing tools, and apply accepted conventions of composition and document formats.
3. Maintain consistency of style in the key elements in a communication, e.g. title, body text, graphic borders, etc.
6. Graphic Organizing and Outlining
1. Choose appropriate graphic organizer templates to organize and analyze information.
2. Add notes to a graphic organizer.
7. Multimedia
1. Access and create sounds within a application.
2. Create transitions in multimedia presentations.
3. Manipulate information within a document.
4. produce a simple multimedia product to share within and beyond the school.
8. Printing
1. Assign a printing task to a specific printer.
2. Recognize when a printer is out of paper by using the print monitor.
3. Recognize when a printer misfeeds or is out of paper by using the warning light on the printer.
4. Load paper tray with desired paper color or size.
5. Choose PDF printer to crate PDFs.
9. Searching and Retrieval
1. Identify fiction, non fiction, magazine, reference, non-print media and electronic resources.
2. Access preselected Internet sites using URLs.
3. Use a search engine to locate information using pre-selected keywords and hypertext menus.
4. Use strategies to retrieve information from a number of different sources.
5. Access at least three articles about the same topic from multiple sources with one from the Internet.
6. Begin to select the electronic source that appears most appropriate for a specific task.
10. Spreadsheets
1. Create a simple spreadsheet.
2. Determine data items to use in a spreadsheet.
3. Insert data in columns and rows.
4. Select the type of graph to display the data.
5. Insert a graph into a word processing document.
6. Name, save, test, and edit a spreadsheet.
7. Print a spreadsheet and use tools to manipulate color, labels and titles.
8. Use a spreadsheet template to calculate and compare research information.
11. Telecommuting/Internet Skills
1. Communicate with another person or group at a remote location.
2. Access a browser to do a query using a search engine.
3. Choose a site which best matches a query.
4. Evaluate a selected title using the following criteria; Authority, accuracy, purpose, currency, and helpfulness.
5. Observe copyright laws and make references.
6. Use basic conventions of etiquette in telecommunication exchanges.
12. Website Design
1. Create a webpage using a suitable web editor.
2. Maintain consistency of style in the key elements in a website.
13. Word Processing and Writing
1. Make some changes to a composition for revising and editing to better reflect thinking and to improve clarity.
2. Use a word processor to generate and refine possible questions for an inquiry.

1. Applications and File Management
1. Save in different locations.
2. Use advanced help features of an application.
3. Share files from one computer to another.
4. Choose the appropriate application needed to open a file, depending on its file format.
2. Computer Hardware
1. Set up peripheral equipment.
2. Access help menu to search for answers to how-to questions.
3. Diagnose and solve common technology problems, such as server connection is lost, printer won't print.
3. Databases
1. Use Internet Resources to search online databases.
2. Choose a database to collate information and to create layouts.
3. Digital Video Productions
4. Utilize a variety of transitions and titling effects in a video.
5. Insert a soundtrack for a video and time action around the sound.
6. Insert video into multimedia presentations, such as PowerPoint.
4. Graphic Design
1. Resize picture files to web-publication sizes.
2. Design layouts.
3. Adjust the lighting of an image.
4. Use a range of techniques to facilitate composition, revision and editing.
5. Use white space to balance text, graphics and decorations, align and place objects using rulers.
5. MultiMedia
1. Import graphics, sound, video, and other files from a variety of sources.
2. Produce a simple multimedia product, such as create web page advocating a point of view to student in other parts of the world, design a database to collage information and to crate layouts.
3. Manipulate sounds in two tracks
4. Utilize a variety of search engines for specific content needs.
6. Printing
1. Understand how many pages will be printed and plan printing job accordingly.
7. Search and Information Retrieval
1. Search online databases to gather information.
2. Combine selected key words to conduct a Boolean search.
3. Retrieve relevant information from various sources and  evaluate the reliability of those sources.
4. Evaluate conflicting evidence.
5. Consider the reliability of sources.
6. Use criteria to compare information from a variety of electronic sources.
8. Spreadsheets
1. Choose a spreadsheet program to graph statistical data.
9. Telecommuting/Internet Skills
1. Attach documents to an email to transport from home to school and back.
10. Word Processing and Writing
1. Use a variety of techniques to facilitate composition, revision and editing, such as write key points in bullet form, cut and past paragraphs to reorder them.

1. Application and File Management
1. Use "Get Info" or "Properties" about a particular file.
2. Know all backup locations for files, such as hard drive, class folders, public folders, etc.
2. Graphic Design and Desktop Publishing/Visual Literacy
1. Apply filters to an image.
2. Create graphic layers, modify the layers, flatten the image.
3. Crop an image to improve the visual composition using the "rule of thirds".
4. Critique graphic images using specified characteristics such as backgrounds, lighting, camera angles, etc.
5. Create appropriately aligned lists using bullets and number lists.
6. Critique the layout of a document commenting on contrast, alignment, repetition, and proximity.
7. Develop criteria and critique printed products.
8. Use software to manage and present graphic images.
3. Multimedia
1. Use advanced features of multimedia programs, and convert to html.
2. Synthesize information from multiple sources to create new products.
3. Critique multimedia productions comparing white space, alignment, rule of thirds, camera angle, sound track, sound bridges, transitions, titles, textual message, etc.
4. Develop criteria and critique multimedia products.
5. Create products using personal perspective.
4. Searching and Information Retrieval
1. Utilize a variety of search engines for specific content needs.
2. Compare fact and opinion in information sources.
3. Identify bias in information sources.
4. Present a personal perspective in information.
5. Identify purposes for the dissemination of information.
6. Identify and use primary and secondary sources of information.
5. Spreadsheets
1. Change perception of information by varying x and y axis on a chart.
2. Change perception of information by varying the scale on a chart.
3. Change perception of information by including visual images with the chart.
4. Compare and contrast information presented in various charts.
6. Website Design
1. Export to HTML from multiple pieces of software.

1. Use a graphics program to illustrate written work.
2. Make a graph to sort and understand information.
3. Use a variety of multimedia resources for directed and independent learning activities. (e.g. number practice programs, reading programs, electronic books)
4. Complete a multimedia project from a template or from a teacher directed model.

1. Select and use appropriate technology tools for individual and collaborative writing and publishing activities.
2. Select and use multimedia tools to create and communicate products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. (e.g. desktop publishing, multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools)
3. Select and use appropriate resources to manipulate and process information. (e.g. spreadsheets, charts, graphs, communication tools)
1. Use a word processing program for prewriting, writing, and publishing.
2. Use databases to search for and sort information.(e.g. library card catalog, Sirs, Global NewsBank, EBSCO, EMAS, National Geographic, Encyclopedia)
3. Create charts and graphs using data in spreadsheets.
4. Sort and analyze information using data bases and spreadsheets.
5. Collect information using digital databases and Internet sources.
4. Describe and use strategies to effectively access remote information efficiently and effectively.
1. Use the Internet effectively.
2. Identify search engines and search directories.
3. Identify reference sites. (e.g., dictionaries, encyclopedias. maps)
4. Identify on-line and CD-Rom databases.
5. Conduct keyword searches and boolean searches effectively.
6. Use bookmarks to locate and mark sites.
5. Develop keyboarding skills in excess of 25 words per minute.

1. Design and present products using technology resources that demonstrate and communicate curriculum concepts. (e.g. web pages, slide shows, multimedia presentations)
1. Complete a range of pre-production tasks such as research, scripting and storyboarding, and production tasks such as recording, editing and design.
2. Use rubrics to compare and contrast multimedia presentations for student productions.
2. Select appropriate technology tools and resources to collect and process information.
1. Select and use content-specific peripheral tools to support learning and research. (e.g. science probes, graphing calculator, scanner, cameras
2. Using given criteria, search for, sort, manipulate, and present data.
3. Construct a spreadsheet or database, enter data, use mathematical or logical functions to manipulate and process data, generate charts and graphs, and interpret results in "if-then" situations.
4. Use an email account.
1. Attach text documents (in rtf format) and graphics (in gif or jpeg format)
2. Forward messages.
3. Use an address book.

1. Use technology tools and resources for managing and communicating personal/professional information (e.g., finances, schedules, addresses, purchases, correspondence)
2. Routinely and efficiently use online information resources to meet needs for collaboration, research, publication, communication, and productivity.
3. Collaborate with peers, experts, and others to contribute to a content-related knowledge base by using technology to compile, synthesize, produce, and disseminate information, models, and other creative works.

1. Define problems to be solved.
2. Identify types and amount of information needed to complete a task and solve a problem.
3. Review information analytically and transform it into useful knowledge to solve problems.
4. Work with a group to collaboratively solve a problem and present results.

1. Perform simulations of real-world situations.
2. State questions to be researched.
3. Use an organizer to develop a plan for a research project or problem to be solved.
4. Consider all possible information sources when planning a research project or solving a problem. (dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, media center, reference sites, search engines, on-line data bases, etc.)
5. Develop a plan for searching for information.
1. Use the media center's system of organization to locate information.
2. Use search strategies to locate digital information at school, at home, and on-line. (e.g. keyword search, boolean search)
6. Use technology to locate, evaluate, collect, and organize information from a variety of sources.
7. Use appropriate tools to organize information from a variety of sources.

1. Work with peers, using telecommunications and collaborative tools.
2. Develop and implement a plan to find an answer to a question or a problem, using the steps of the research cycle.
1. State questions to be researched.
2. Use an organizer to develop a plan for a research project or problem to be solved.
3. Consider all possible information sources.
4. Develop a plan for searching for information.
5.  Use technology to locate, evaluate, collect, and organize information from a variety of sources.
6.  Identify and use strategies to evaluate validity of information sources.
7.  Support statements with facts found in books, articles, databases and Internet sources, and identify the sources used.
8.  Communicate results of research in final, edited product.

1. Evaluate technology-based options, including distance and distributed education, for lifelong learning.
2. Select and apply technology tools for research, information analysis, problem solving, and decision making in content learning.
3. Investigate and apply expert systems, intelligent agents, and simulations in real-world situations.