10.0 Curriculum
Students must be able to
identify, evaluate, and use curriculum resources as applicable. Students
must also understand the terms and goals of the NC Computer Skills Curriculum.
10.1 List the applicable Computer Skills Curriculum
to identify what students should know and be able to do (within the content
and grade level).
Recommended Portfolio Entry
The above
link will take you to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study Curriculum
strand relating to the competencies middle grade students should be learning.
10.2 List/Use school television resourcesthat
support the grade and content curriculum.
Recommended Portfolio Entries
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List available school television
resources and their correlation to your
appropriate grade level curriculum and computer skills competencies
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Develop lesson plans utilizing appropriate school
television resources
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Develop materials for better implementation of
television-supplemented lesson plans (worksheets, graphic organizers, activities)
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Develop an assessment tool to evaluate student
learning via school television resources
The television
resources I have listed also have websites that can be accessed at any
time by students who have access to the internet. The students can
even check the calendars on each site to see if anything is coming up soon
that relates to what they may be presently studying, or have recently studied.
10.3 Access resources (as available) for planning
instruction available via telecommunications (e.g., experts, lesson plans,authentic
data,curriculum materials).
Recommended Portfolio Entries
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Develop an annotated listing
of URLs that correlate to your appropriate grade level curriculum and
computer skills competencies
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Develop examples of curriculum design that incorporate
technology such as e-mail, the Internet, video-conferencing, or web page
development
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Compile and organize appropriate telecommunication
resources into a usable off-line format
This link
will take you to a list of great web sites I have found over the past several
semesters and have recommended to a few students.
10.4 Locate, evaluate, and select appropriate
teaching/learning resources and curriculum materials for the content and
grade level, including computer-based products, videotapes and discs, primary
documents and artifacts, texts, reference books, literature and other print
sources.
Recommeded Portfolio Entires
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Create a curriculum
design (unit or lesson plan) to correlate computer skills with other
curricular objectives
This is
a unit plan I created in the fall of 1999. It incorporated the use
of the Weather Channel's web page and another great interactive children's
site called "Dan's Wild Wild Weather Page"
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Collect and organize available computer skills
resources:
PI Lesson Plans
7-11 SLIPS
Data files
Commercial products
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Incorporate computer skills lesson plans into classroom
instruction (demonstrated by videotape, principal observation, student
work/portfolios, or peer observation) as appropriate
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Utilize available released items (knowledge and
performance) as assessment for computer skills for your appropriate grade
level/subject
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Incorporate available test items into assessment
of other instructional objectives
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Develop additional test items for assessment of
computer skills
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Develop a selected computer software listing for
an appropriate grade/subject area
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Develop a selected videotape listing for an appropriate
grade/subject area
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Develop a selected videodisc listing for an appropriate
grade/subject area
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Develop a selected community resource file for
your grade/subject area
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Develop a selected print media listing (texts,
reference books, literature) for your appropriate grade/subject area
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