TECHNOLOGY AS A TOOL FOR PRODUCTIVITY Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.

Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, preparing publications, and producing other creative works.

Use general purpose productivity tools (word processor, spreadsheet, and database) and peripherals to support personal productivity, to facilitate learning throughout the curriculum, and to remediate skill deficits.

Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.

The student:

- Uses a presentation or drawing program to create an electronic slideshow for the teleprompt.

- Uses a video camera and computer to produce a video.

- Uses word processors to do a variety of written works, such as letters, reports, poems, and stories.

- Creates multimedia, video and hypermedia products individually or collaboratively to communicate a message, report on a project or activity, or present a product to various audiences.

TECHNOLOGY AS A TOOL FOR COMMUNICATIONS

Students use technology to communicate, to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences. Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.

Explain the advantages and disadvantages in the use of various technologies to deliver information for a target audience (e.g., compare communication through video over mass media; e-mail over the Internet, CD-ROM, or person-to-person).

The student:

Independently uses telecommunications to retrieve information from various sources (e.g. websites, experts, organizations) on a topic of personal interest.

Uses technology tools independently (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras) to exchange information with others who share the same interest to produce knowledge products for various audiences

The student:

Uses telecommunications and video to retrieve and share information on a topic of personal interest effectively and efficiently. For example, student participates in an online group project (weather reporting, current events tracking) to practice exchange of information gathering and reporting with students in various locations.

Creates new text messages through announce program, replies to received messages, and saves selected messages.

Explains which means of communication and distribution of information is the most effective for a given purpose or audience (such as the web for information that changes daily, or books for information that does not change at all or slowly over time).