Content Area: Technological Literacy

 

Index: 8.1B Grade 8 CPI 10

 

Standard:8.1 - Computer and Information Literacy

 

Strand: B - Application of Productivity Tools

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 10 - The student will determine when technology tools are appropriate to solve a problem and make a decision.

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        A public relations firm has been hired to develop and produce a documentary alerting young adults to the need for fiscal responsibility when using credit cards. As an employee, you have been asked to develop a five-minute demo for the client.

 

·        Earth is becoming uninhabitable.

 

·        Although New Jersey is well known as the Garden State, it certainly could be recognized as the Invention State. We now live in an increasing complex "global society" with demands for increased invention, design, and manufacturing to make people's lives and work more productive while meeting personal and family needs.

 

·        Current transportation systems consume natural resources and add to pollution and congestion.

 

 

 

 

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