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Content Area: Technological Literacy
Index: 8.1A Grade 8 CPI 12
Standard:8.1 - Computer and Information Literacy
Strand: A - Basic Computers Skills and Tools
Cumulative Progress Indicator: 12 - The student will create, organize and manipulate shortcuts.
Grade: 8
Sample Activities:
· With the increase of e-mail and online instant messaging among today’s pre-teens and teens, a recognizable change has occurred in the language that students use in their writing. This lesson explores the language of electronic messages and how it affects other writing. Furthermore, it explores the freedom and creativity for using Internet abbreviations for specific purposes and examines the importance of a more formal style of writing based on the audience. As an interdisciplinary unit lessons could be incorporated any time during the school year when appropriate to align to the district and state curriculum.
· FYI and B4 your students advance further than their teachers and parents, students will create a directory of commonly used electronic messaging shortcuts and/or keyboard shortcuts. Students will need to organize the data efficiently for quick retrieval of the information. During the school year, students can continue to add to the database.
· As a service project, eighth grade students will participate in a short presentation on the impact of technology on children. To help parents to navigate through e-communication with their children, students will produce a handbook of electronic shortcuts.
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