Grade Cluster 5-6 Task # 6

The Grade Cluster & Task #: Grade Cluster 5-6, Task # 6

The Product/Performance: A Poster

The Components: Word Processing, Basic Operations, Social Ethical, Human Issues

The Task:

Students will create a Poster that describes/displays the personal and interpersonal consequences of inappropriate use of technology. In this task, students will demonstrate both their knowledge of appropriate uses of technology and of basic technology operations

They will locate and launch a word processing program and an Internet Browser. Using the Word Processor, they will open an existing file from the teacher’s folder that contains questions they must answer.

After finding information on the Internet regarding in/appropriate use of technology, they will select that information and using a contextual menu, move that text between the open applications appropriately citing as necessary. Then they will save their notes to a nested folder they have previously created and named. They will then copy that folder into the teacher’s folder.

Finally, using their notes, they will create their poster using proper formatting techniques. They will spell check the final document.

Rationale:

A poster is a visual means of students’ expressing their learning and personal opinions. It allows them to use short textual statements with visuals to deliver a powerful message. Understanding how to navigate within an operating system and use the basic tools of the computing environment is important for effective and efficient use. Knowing what is appropriate and inappropriate when it comes to using technology is critical. The poster allows students to creatively demonstrate the knowledge gleaned from research. It provides a vehicle for students at this grade level to promote appropriate use and practice.

IT1 - Basic Operations & Concepts

· Right clicking [Windows] or clicking, holding, and dragging [Mac/Windows] presents a contextual menu.(e.g., right clicking on an image offers a menu of choices about what you want to do with the image), control/command, escape keys

· Launching a program by locating it on the internal, external, or network drive.

· Navigating between open windows and applications.

· Opening documents from and saving documents to nested folders

· Creating, naming, and renaming folders.

· Creating folders within folders (nested folders).

· Copying and moving files and folders.

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

IT2 - Social, Ethical & Human Issues

· Describing personal and interpersonal consequences of inappropriate use.

IT3 - Productivity Tools

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

· Using spell check, and thesaurus.

IT4 - Communication

Not assessed in this task

IT5 - Research, Problem Solving & Decision Making

Not assessed in this task

Glossary:

Contextual Menu: Options provided by the computer dependent upon what you are doing. For example, Windows uses right mouse click and Macintosh uses click and hold or Control Click to present options such as saving a Browser picture to your disk.

Nested Folders: Folders within folders.

Resources:

Inappropriate Use

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