Grade 6 Technology Applications Kentucky Standards

Students use digital tools to connect with learners inside and outside of their classroom.

Students communicate clearly and express themselves with a variety of digital tools.

Students understand sequences and use them to develop solutions to problems.

Students use a variety of technologies to design and create.

Students use various digital tools to find information and make meaning.

Students manage their digital identity in a safe, positive, and proactive way.

Students use technology to take an active role in their learning.

Creative Communicator

Communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals, audience and task.

Choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.

Choose from available platforms and tools to meet the designated objectives of their creation or communication.

Create original works or responsibly repurpose and/or remix digital resources into new creations.

Create original works, or repurpose/remix digital resources into new creations, while demonstrating an understanding of digital citizenship ex.: intellectual property rights or copyrights .

Communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

Create or incorporate digital content to communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively to a variety of audiences.

Publish and present content customized for their audience s , purpose, and task.

Publish and present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences.

Publish or present original content to a predetermined audience that appropriately customizes the message and medium.

Computational Thinker

Develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.

Formulate problem definitions suited for technology-assisted methods such as data analysis, abstract models and algorithmic thinking in exploring and finding solutions.

Ask questions, gather data, create/observe abstract models, and think of different processes while finding solutions to real-world problems.

Collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.

Solve problems and make decisions by collecting data or identifying relevant data sets, using digital tools ex.: sheets, surveys to analyze the data, and represent their findings through various ways.

Break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.

Break problems into parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or lead problem solving tasks.

Understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.

Use digital tools to collect data, conduct analysis, and discuss findings or possible solutions.

Apply strategies for understanding and solving problems by using technological methods to develop and test solutions.

Use resources to collect, analyze, and represent data.

Use digital tools to ask questions to an audience and digitally collect data, and analyze the findings.

Deconstruct components to understand systems and facilitate problem-solving.

Use technology-assisted methods to break problems down into smaller, more manageable parts by finding patterns or other methods of decomposition.

Create and test automated solutions.

Use algorithm design to develop step-by-step instructions for solving a problem.

Digital Citizen

Recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world; act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.

Cultivate and manage your digital identity and reputation, and be aware of the permanence of your actions in the digital world.

Recognize behaviors, habits, and actions that create, maintain, and influence both positive and negative digital identities, reputations, and footprints in the digital world.

Build awareness of public and permanent nature of online actions and the possible present and future consequences in personal, academic, and professional lives.

Engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.

Recognize and demonstrate responsible behaviors that are safe, ethical, and legal across a variety of devices, platforms, and settings while considering possible consequences for themselves and/or others.

Understand how to be respectful to others online while interacting, communicating, and collaborating and know strategies in order to avoid and/or combat cyberbullying.

Manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security and are aware of data-collection technology used to track their navigation online.

Distinguish between information that is public and personal/private and develop and utilize strategies to secure and protect personal/private data and user accounts.

Understand that data-collection technology is used to track online navigation and recognize and avoid online scams and phishing.

Demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.

Use information, media and digital resources in a responsible manner.

Demonstrate acceptable use of the internet, information, media and digital resources, including social media according to user agreements, policies, and laws.

Respect intellectual property rights.

Recognize and respect different intellectual property classifications, including those that are copyrighted, subject to fair use, public domain properties, and/or have creative commons licenses.

Demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.

Recognize and seek permission to use the intellectual property of others appropriately.

Use and share the intellectual property of others with proper citation and attribution elements.

Empowered Learner

Leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.

Articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.

Set personal learning goals and select and manage digital tools that will best support individualized learning ex.: use collaborative documents to revise and reflect on the writing process .

Reflect on successes, areas of improvement, and make necessary revisions to improve the learning over time ex.: using digital writing portfolio and reflection log/journal .

Build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that support the learning process.

Collaborate with a network of self-selected global partners ex.: students, teachers, professionals, and the global community to customize and support the individual learning process.

Use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Seek feedback from an authentic audience and from features embedded in digital tools ex.: share documents with teachers and peers asking for feedback on writing .

Use feedback to analyze data and make learning adjustments based on the feedback.

Understanding the fundamental concepts of how to use technology technology operations .

Understand the fundamental use of technology tools to consider how to use technology to promote creativity, communication, collaboration, and critical thinking.

Choose and troubleshoot technology tools to suit purpose.

Transfer the knowledge of existing technology to explore new technologies.

Apply the fundamental concepts of technology operations and demonstrate the ability to choose, use, and/or troubleshoot current technologies.

Demonstrate learning with the use of technology.

Evaluate the effectiveness of different digital tools to communicate information with multiple audiences.

Apply functions and concepts of technology operations; demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies.

Choose functions and operations appropriate to their task and purpose.

Transfer knowledge to emerging technology.

Apply and adapt knowledge of existing technology to the modification-based use of new technologies.

Global Collaborator

Use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.

Use digital tools to connect with learners from a variety of backgrounds and cultures, engaging with them in ways that broaden mutual understanding and learning.

Use digital tools and resources to connect and collaborate with authentic audiences from various backgrounds and cultures to broaden mutual understanding and learning, while using appropriate digital citizenship skills.

Contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal.

Select and use digital tools in diverse collaborative teams within the classroom, assuming specific roles, responsibilities, and perspectives other than your own, to contribute effectively toward a common goal.

Contribute to the exchange of ideas within and beyond the learning community.

Select and use digital tools in diverse collaborative teams outside the classroom, assuming specific roles, responsibilities, and perspectives other than their own, to contribute effectively toward a common goal.

Use digital tools to connect with a global network of learners and engage with issues that impact local and global communities.

Use collaborative technologies to work with others, including peers, experts or community members, to examine issues and problems from multiple viewpoints.

Use collaborative technologies to connect with others - including peers, experts, and community members - to learn about issues and problems or to gain diverse local and global perspectives.

Explore local and global issues and use collaborative technologies to work with others to investigate solutions.

Use collaborative technologies and assume roles within digital creations while maintaining digital citizenship within the team digital workspace to investigate and develop solutions to local and global issues.

Innovative Designer

Use a variety of technologies to identify and solve authentic real-world problems.

Find authentic real-world problems in local and global contexts.

Collaborate with others in and out of the classroom using digital tools to identify real-world problems and propose a solution that affects the local and global community.

Exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended problems.

Demonstrate the ability to investigate and make sense of open-ended problems using digital tools and persevere in solving them.

Use a variety of technologies within a design process to create new, useful and imaginative solutions.

Know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.

Explore and choose appropriate processes and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.

Select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.

Investigate and use meaningful digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.

Develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.

Create, develop and test prototypes; understand and appreciate that failures are opportunities for growth and improvement.

Knowledge Constructor

Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge.

Plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.

Demonstrate effective digital search techniques ex.: filtering searches using advanced settings/tools, keyword/term choices, or phases to locate information or other resources to gather specific information on a subject or research topic.

Practice research strategies that outline a process for locating information digitally ex.: tools and effective search techniques .

Evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance of information, media, data or other resources.

Select a method, tool, or strategy to evaluate source s for credibility, relevance, authority, accuracy, and perspective.

Analyze digital information, media, data, and materials for credibility, relevance, authority, accuracy, and perspective.

Curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.

Combine various tools ex.: spreadsheet, database, saved files and methods ex.: concept mapping, flow charting and outlining software to classify information, observations, or experiments digitally.

Compile information from digital resources ex.: search engines, online periodical databases, virtual library/online catalogs, interactive video conferencing .

Produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences from curated knowledge for themselves and others.

Produce creative artifacts.

Demonstrate the ability to create new ideas/concepts or products with digital tools.

Build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions.

Build knowledge by generating and testing solutions for exploring real world issues using a variety of technology ex.: data collection tools, models, videos, podcast, simulations, forms .