Grade Cluster  3-4     Task # 5

The Grade Cluster & Task #:                   Grade Cluster 3-4, Task # 5

The Product/Performance:                      Students will write a brief essay on Social, Ethical & Human Issues

The Components:                                  Operations, Social, Ethical & Human Issues, Productivity Tools   

The Task:
After research and discussion, students will create a Word Processed document that describes safe and responsible use of technology and personal consequences of inappropriate use.

 

To enhance their document, they will incorporate non-textual elements and manipulate styles. They will Cut text from their electronic research and paste it into their paper applying quotation marks and properly referencing the source. They will spell check the document. 

 

In a shared network directory, students will create and name their own folder.  Within that folder, they will create a subsequent (nested) folder and name it.  They will save their work to this location.

 

Rationale:        

Students need to become responsible digital citizens. They need to understand their relationship and responsibility to others as it applies in the “digital world”.  Expressing their opinions and views in written form will allow for introspection and communication. 

IT1 - Basic Operations & Concepts

·       Creating, naming, and renaming folders.

·       Creating folders within folders (nested folders).

·       Cutting, copying, and pasting within a document and across documents

IT2 - Social, Ethical & Human Issues

·       Describing basic issues related to the responsible and safe use of technology. (e.g., appropriate use of email, respect for others’ electronic property, maintaining confidentiality)

·       Describing personal consequences of inappropriate use.

IT3 - Productivity Tools

·     Adding non-textual elements (e.g., arrows, lines, shapes, etc.).

·     Manipulating styles (e.g., fonts, style, size, color of text, alignment).

·       Using spell check

IT4 - Communication

Not assessed in this task

IT5 - Research, Problem Solving & Decision Making

Not assessed in this task

 

 

Resources:

 

            Inappropriate Use

            http://www.state.ia.us/educate/ecese/is/ecn/primaryse/tppse05l.htm