The Department of Education recognized its importance by including technology in the original cross-content workplace readiness standards. In keeping with today’s technological society, technological literacy has been further emphasized by its inclusion as a separate standards area which focuses on both computer and information literacy and technology education.
Their vision: "All students must understand and be comfortable with the concepts and
application of technology, not only in order to function in today’s complex society, but also to become informed and productive adults of tomorrow."
NJCCCS breakdown the forms of learning into two standards: 1. Computer and information literacy, which supports skills in information-gathering, information-organizing, and problem solving, because administrators require students and employees to possess a broad range of skills in computers. The computer and information literacy standard is designed to be integrated and applied in all of the content areas of the core curriculum content standards. 2. Technology education standard was developed to ensure the literacy needed by all students to succeed in such a technological based world.
Computer & Information Literacy:
A. Basic computer tools: keyboarding, word processing, Internet usage, and spread sheets.
B. Application of productivity tools: social aspects, information access and research, and problem solving.
What can students achieve by the 4th, 8th, and 12th grade?
Grade 4: Use of basic technology vocabulary, input and access text and data by using appropriate keyboarding technology, produce and interpret a simple graph or chart, create and maintain files and folders, discuss the common uses of computer applications and identify their advantages and disadvantages, recognize and practice responsible behavior such as: Internet access, copyright material, and personal security and safety issues, recognize the need for accessing and using information, and locate specific information by searching a database, and solve problems individually and collaboratively using computer application.
Grade 8: Use common features of an opening system (ex: creating/organizing files or folders), create documents with advanced text-formation and graphs using word processing, design and produce a basic multimedia project, use network resources for storing and retrieving data, and create, organize, and manipulate shortcuts, describe and practice safe Internet usage, explain the purpose of an acceptable use policy and the consequences of inappropriate use of technology.
Grade 12: Create a multi-page document with citations using word processing software in conjunction with other tools that demonstrates the ability to format, edit, and print, develop a document or file for inclusion into a website or web page, and exhibit legal and ethical behaviors when using information and technology, and discuss consequences of misuse, compose, send, and organize e-mail messages with and without attachments, and identify, diagnose, and suggest solutions for non-functioning technology systems.
Technology Education:
A. Nature & Impact of technology
B. Design Process & Impact of assessment
C. Systems in the Designed World
What can students achieve by the 4th, 8th, and 12th grade?
Grade 4: All of the above (A,B, and C) with reference to Science Standards
Grade 8: Describe the nature of technology and the consequences of technological activity,
Describe how technological activity has an affect on economic development, political actions, and
cultural change,use hands on activities to analyze products and systems to determine how the design process was applied to create the solution, describe how variations in resources can affect solutions to a technological problem and select and safely use appropriate tools and materials in analyzing, designing, modeling or making a technological product, system or environment, and
explain reasons why human-designed systems, products, and environments need to be monitored, maintained, and improved to ensure safety, quality, cost efficiency, and sustainability.
Grade 12: Use appropriate data to discuss the full costs, benefits and trade-offs, and risks related to the use of technologies, analyze a given technological product, system, or environment to understand how the engineering design process and design specification limitations influenced the final solution, diagnose a malfunctioning product and system using appropriate critical thinking methods, and compare and contrast the effectiveness of various products, systems, and environments associated with technological activities in energy, transportation, manufacturing, and information and communication.
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