Grade 6 Technology Applications Arizona Standards

Empowered Learner - Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving, and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.

Students articulate personal learning goals, select, and manage appropriate technologies to achieve them, and reflect on their successes and areas of improvement in working toward their goals.

Students identify and begin to develop online networks of experts and peers to customize their learning environments in accordance with school policy.

Students integrate feedback from people and digital tools to improve their learning process, and they select technology to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Students navigate a variety of technologies and transfer their skills to troubleshoot and learn how to use new technologies.

Digital Citizen - Students recognize the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal, and ethical.

Students cultivate their digital identities and reputations within a digital environment and understand that digital actions are permanent.

Students demonstrate and advocate for positive, safe, legal, and ethical behavior when using technology and when interacting with others online.

Students demonstrate and advocate for an understanding of intellectual property including copyright, permission, and fair use by including appropriate citation and attribution elements.

Students demonstrate an understanding of what personal data is, how it is collected, and how to keep it private and secure, including the awareness of current technology terms and processes.

Knowledge Constructor - Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts, and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.

Students practice and improve research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.

Students practice evaluating the accuracy, perspective, credibility, and relevance of information, media, data or other resources.

Students locate and collect a variety of resources and organize information to make meaningful connections.

Students explore real-world problems and issues and actively pursue solutions for them.

Innovative Designer - Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.

Students engage in a design process for generating and testing ideas and developing innovative products to solve problems.

Students select and use digital tools to support a design process and expand their understanding to identify constraints and trade-offs and to weigh risks.

Students engage in a design process to develop, test, and revise prototypes, embrace the iterative process of trial and error, and understand setbacks as potential opportunities for improvement.

Students demonstrate an ability to persevere and handle greater ambiguity as they work to solve open-ended problems.

Computational Thinker - Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.

Students practice defining and solving problems by selecting technology for data analysis, modeling, and algorithmic thinking.

Students find and organize data and use technology to analyze and represent it to solve problems and make decisions.

Students break problems into component parts, identify key pieces, and use that information to solve problems.

Students understand how automation works and apply algorithmic thinking to design and automate solutions.

Creative Communicator - Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.

Students select appropriate platforms and tools to create, share, and communicate their work effectively.

Students create original works or responsibly repurpose digital resources into new creative works.

Students create artifacts using digital tools to communicate complex ideas textually, visually, graphically, and auditorily.

Students publish or present content designed for intended audiences and select platforms that effectively convey their ideas.

Standard 7. Global Collaborator - Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.

Students use digital tools to interact with others to develop a richer understanding of different perspectives and cultures.

Students use collaborative technologies to connect with others, including peers, experts and community members, to learn about issues and problems or to gain a broader perspective.

Students perform a variety of roles within a team, using age-appropriate technology to complete a project or solve a problem.

Students work with others, using collaborative technologies to explore local and global issues and investigate and advocate for possible solutions.