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Chester Township Public Schools
Technology Literacy
Technology Literacy - Eighth Grade
Technology Literacy
The goal of our computer literacy program is to provide a quality program that is in full compliance with the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards in technology literacy. In a manner that is developmentally appropriate, students will learn to use computer applications to manipulate and communicate information.
Eighth Grade
Eighth grade students continue to build upon computer skills developed in kindergarten through third grade extending their applications to include e-mail, word processing and graphics.
Through a designated scope and sequence and in conjunction with content area curriculum, students incrementally develop skills and competence beginning in kindergarten and progressing to grade 8 in computer literacy.
Over the K-8 exposure students will: -demonstrate skill in using a computer and Local Area Network (LAN) - use a word processor as a writing and publishing tool. - participate in curriculum based projects that use a spreadsheet to analyze manipulate, and predict data. - participate in curriculum based projects that use a database to access, manipulate, and utilize information including information found on the World Wide Web. - participate in curriculum based projects that use a multimediapresentation program to manipulate and present information to large audiences. - participate in curriculum based projects that use telecommunications including distance learning, the Internet, and the World Wide Web, to interact with other students and connect with outside resources to research retrieve, and share ideas and information.
Specific goals for grades 7 and 8 are: - continue to use educational software that coincides with the curriculun. including special areas sucha as art and music. - use word processing on a regular basis to complete classroom assignments and integrate clip art, scanned images, digital cameras and the Internet in completing assignments. - continue to use speadsheet and database to evaluate curriculum information. - continue to use CD-ROM software to do research fo assignments and projects. - Use the Internet as part of regular research skills for classroom projects.
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