Grade 6

Empowered Learner (should we make reference to Personalized Learning)

Digital Citizen Students recognize the dignity and rights of all people and understand the responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world as they act and model virtuous, safe, legal and ethical use.

Knowledge Constructor Students critically select, evaluate and organize a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge. Students create and produce original artifacts to make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.

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

Computational Thinker Students develop and employ strategies for identifying, understanding and solving authentic problems using data and processes to automate solutions.

Creative Communicator Students communicate clearly with integrity and express themselves creatively through digital media using platforms, tools, styles, and formats appropriate to their learning goals.

Global Collaborator Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives of God’s world and cultures as they enrich their learning through effective collaboration with others locally and globally.

Students articulate learning goals

Identify and develop online networks (within school policy)

Actively seek performance feedback from people including teachers, peers and functionality embedded in digital tools to improve the learning process

Select appropriate technology to demonstrate learning in a variety of ways.

Navigate a variety of technologies and transfer knowledge and skills to learn and use new technologies

Device operations and concepts

Students practice responsible use and handling of devices

Students demonstrate and advocate for online safety

Students demonstrate a virtuous ‘digital footprint’ by managing personal digital identity and reputation

Students demonstrates and respect the intellectual property of others with both print and digital media when using and sharing the work of others

Students demonstrate and practice the ability to effectively utilize research strategies to locate appropriate digital resources in support of their learning.

Students practice and demonstrate the ability to evaluate resources for accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance.

Students locate and collect resources from a variety of sources and organize assets into collections for a wide range of projects and purposes.

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

Students engage in a design process and employ it to generate ideas, create innovative products or solve authentic 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, embracing the cyclical process of trial and error and understanding problems or setbacks as potential opportunities for improvement.

Students demonstrate the virtue of perseverance and handle greater ambiguity as they work to solve open-ended problems.

Students practice defining problems to solve by computing for data analysis, modeling or 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 problem solve.

Students demonstrate an understanding of how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to design and automate solutions.

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

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

Students communicate complex ideas clearly using various digital tools to convey the concepts textually, visually, graphically, kinesthetically, etc.

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 broader perspective.

Students determine their role on a team to meet goals, based on their knowledge of technology and content, as well as personal preference.

Students select collaborative technologies and use them to work with others to investigate and develop solutions related to local and global issues.

 Interpret and use data to inform decisions

Select and manage appropriate technologies to achieve goals

Reflect on success and areas of improvement in working toward goals

Customize learning environments to support learning

See scope and sequence link (https://bbk12e1-cdn.myschoolcdn.com/ftpimages/656/misc/misc_135131.pdf)

Understand elements of personal data

Understand how to keep personal data private and secure

Understand how personal data might be shared online

Understand how digital actions are never fully erasable

Transfer knowledge of the commandments with all media in all content areas

Understand creative commons resources and copyrighted materials

Use appropriate citation and attribution elements

Locate required citation information on web-pages and other digital resources and cite in the appropriate style

Identify a variety of search engines and their purpose

Compare and contrast the URL of a websites and make a distinction between the suffixes .org, .com, .edu, .net, .gov and international domains

Understand the rules and guidelines in the school’s Responsible Use Policy

Conduct independent research, format and present the information

Transfer the information learned from online sources into your own words

Use digital tools or platforms to organize, display, annotate and/or share a curated collection

Use digital tools or platforms to organize, display, annotate and/or share a curated collection

Use tab browsing to navigate multiple pages

Create bookmarks and add frequently used sites to the bookmark bar

Use a browser’s history feature to locate previously visited sites

Follow the guidelines of Digital Citizenship

Research, contact, interview, and collaborate with community leaders on a real world issue

Collaborate with peers to create and present a solution to a real-world problem for an authentic audience (i.e., photo story, video file, audio file, poster)

Create an artifact to share the results of research and collaboration with community leaders (i.e., Public Service Announcements, sharing end result to stakeholders)

Use the Cardinal Virtues as a moral guide in design thinking

Apply 2D design tools to create prototypes, models and simulations to demonstrate solutions and ideas

Apply 3D design tools to create prototypes, models, and simulations to demonstrate solutions and ideas

Use spreadsheet data to create tables, charts and graphs

Use spreadsheets to calculate formulas and functions

 Use spreadsheet to organize and create databases 

Use database to sort, order and query information

Use surveys to collect data

Identify the appropriate creation or communication tool for a task

Publish or present content designed for specific audiences and select platforms that will effectively convey their ideas to those audiences