Skill Descriptor:
Demonstrate knowledge of health habits that have a positive impact on self.
Achievement Indicators:
Conduct an audit of personal health habits
Develop a personal plan for healthy living
Assess the effectiveness of various health habits to prevent the spread of communicable diseases
Skill Descriptor:
Apply sociological perspectives to a current event or societal issue.
Achievement Indicators:
Make a claim about the causes of a current social issue based on a specific sociological perspective
Support that claim with evidence using that sociological lens
Skills Descriptor:
Take age-appropriate actions that demonstrate the rights and responsibilities of citizenship (local, national, and global).
Achievement Indicators:
In the Middle Block, Technology “focuses on learners developing technology skills needed for personal wellness, self-sufficiency, and foundational skills for future technology learning. Learners will develop digital and applied technology skills for their own immediate and future needs as they develop self-awareness and autonomy.” Digital media literacy skills are found in the topics of cybersecurity and digital communication.
Skill Descriptor:
Apply cybersecurity knowledge to personal data.
Achievement Indicators:
Define digital footprint
Discuss ways digital footprints can be commercialized
Explain the importance of privacy management
Identify how privacy can and does change and affect society
Skill Descriptor:
Apply cybersecurity practices to hardening of computers.
Achievement Indicators:
Ensure basic hardening of a device is implemented such as firewalls, anti-virus, passwords, updates, and zero-trust relationships
Skill Descriptor:
Distinguish between types of cybersecurity attacks.
Achievement Indicators:
Distinguish between phishing, DDoS, MitM, Zero-day exploit, malware, and botnets
In the High School Block, Career Connected Learning is divided into three subtopics: Career and Occupational Learning, Digital and Information Technology, and Skilled Trades. Connections to digital media literacy are found in the first two of those subtopics, particularly Digital and Information Technology.
Skill Descriptor:
Compare the development over time of marketing methods and activities.
Achievement Indicators:
Describe the changes in marketing method due to growth of information technology.
Skill Descriptor:
Identify a need or problem to innovate or solve a sector-specific challenge or project and develop technical drawings of possible solutions.
Achievement Indicators:
Identify the need or problem, project goal(s), and date required
Identify any other attempts to solve the need or problem and develop a unique solution