Skill Descriptor:
Curate and present content to communicate facts, ideas, and opinions considering target audiences.
Achievement Indicators:
Present content in a manner that connects with audience and purpose
Skill Descriptor:
Construct and communicate an awareness of self, others, and the world.
Achievement Indicators:
Take ideas, knowledges, and ways of being into account when advocating for, explaining, or presenting perspectives
Present with intention, using content, language, and delivery to convey meaning
The Humanities courses in the High School Block “prepare learners to be active and informed citizens” and “engage learners with principles of democracy such as freedom, equality, human dignity, justice, rule of law, human rights, and civic responsibilities.” Digital media literacy connections are found throughout the Humanities curriculum.
Skill Descriptor:
SCO 1.1 Students will explore the four domains of civic engagement
Concepts and content:
How do people use the formal political system to make change?
How do people work outside of the formal political system to make change?
What is civic agency?
Examples of active citizens
Wellness and Physical Education courses “prepare students to make informed decisions, recognize personal health and growth, develop positive relationships, and be an advocate for inclusivity. Components of a wellness course include healthy lifestyle, mental fitness, positive relationships, understanding stages of human growth and development, and connecting to future pathways.”
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