High School Technology Applications SCOS Standards

Understand privacy concerns with computing systems

Understand legal and ethical implications of computation innovation

Understand the impacts of computational innovation.

Understand basic impacts of computing.

Understand how data is sent through the internet.

Understand how the internet works.

Understand network structures.

Understand basic computing systems and networks.

Utilize procedure calls in programs.

Utilize conditional expressions and selections.

Evaluate expressions in an algorithmic process.

Write programs using sequential algorithms

Understand basic data structures

Understand basic algorithms and programming.

Understand how computer store information.

Understand how binary numbers represent data.

Understand basic data.

Design user interface.

Identify errors in algorithms or programs.

Understand input and output in computing systems.

Describe computational innovations

Understand basic creative development.

Safety and Ethical Issues

Research Process

Technology as a Tool

Sources of Information

Design project-based products that address global problems.

Design global-awareness project-based products individually and collaboratively.

Analyze issues and practices of responsible behavior when using resources.

Analyze ethical issues and practices related to copyright, not plagiarizing, and netiquette.

Analyze safety issues and practices when using online resources (legal and criminal consequences, long-term career consequences of behavior).

Evaluate resources needed to solve a given problem.

Evaluate resources for reliability. (Reliability can be determined by currency, credibility, authority, etc. depending on the curriculum topic).

Evaluate resources for point of view, bias, values, or intent of information.

Evaluate content for relevance to the assigned task.

Use technology and other resources for assigned tasks.

Use appropriate technology tools and other resources to access information (multi-database search engines, online primary resources, virtual interviews with content experts).

Use appropriate technology tools and other resources to organize information (e.g. online note-taking tools, collaborative wikis).

Use appropriate technology tools and other resources to design products to share information with others (e.g. multimedia presentations, Web 2.0 tools, graphics, podcasts, and audio files).

Define and call simple functions.

Explain why and how functions can make code easier to read and maintain.

Recognize functions in programs as a form of abstraction.

Understand functions.

Practice creating, storing and retrieving list values.

Understand common list operations.

Utilize lists to simplify solutions, generalizing computational problems instead of repeatedly using simple variables.

Convert numbers from base-10 (decimal) to binary and decimal.

Analyze the base-2 (binary) number system.

Understand what bits and bytes are and how they relate to computers.

Create a program that uses Booleans and Boolean operators.

Apply Boolean expressions inside conditional (If/then and loops).

Understand what Booleans and Boolean operators are and why and when to use them.

Create a program that uses coordinates.

Evaluate how a sprite or game character moves across the output screen using a coordinate system.

Understand coordinate grid system.

Construct programs that include events.

Create a program that uses iteration and looping, including nested loops.

Analyze when to implement loops as a form of iteration.

Understand the iteration in programming.

Create a program that correctly and effectively implements conditionals.

Utilize ‘If…then’ and ‘If…then…else’ statements to yield specified outcomes.

Understand what conditional statements are and how to implement them in a program.

Create programs that use variables to store and modify data.

Apply basic mathematical operators for variable values.

Declare, initialize, and assign values to constants and variables using meaningful names.

Understand what variables are and how to use them in a program.

Implement flowcharts and pseudocode to address complex problems as algorithms.

Define an algorithm as a sequence of instructions that can be processed by a computer.

Understand algorithms.

Utilize public domain or creative commons media to avoid copying or using material created by others without permission.

Evaluate the social and economic implications of privacy in the context of safety, law, and ethics.

Understand ethics in computer science.

Understand the importance of documenting, commenting, and debugging code to make the program easier to read.

Recall the variety of inputs that a computer takes in and the outputs a computer sends to the user.

Utilize the design thinking process to develop an understanding of a problem or user need in order to design an optimal solution.

Describe the function of common physical components of computing systems (hardware) with appropriate terminology.

Understand the components of computers and computer programming.