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
In the Primary Block, learners “investigate, play, grow, pretend, invent, and develop relationships with others and with the environment… They develop interests, social and emotional well-being, and personal safety strategies which help a child feel valued, secure, and ready to learn. Learners get to know their peers, find and fix problems, and show off their learning while experiencing and expressing a variety of emotions.”
Skill Descriptor:
Demonstrate being a reader, writer, and communicator in multiple languages.
Achievement Indicators:
Attempt to integrate new words into communicative opportunities with others.
Engage with a variety of media and/or text in multiple languages.
It’s that time of year again when parents (and kids) are either counting down the days until school begins, or feeling a sense of overwhelming worry that the summer hasn’t lasted long enough. Admittedly, I’m in the latter category. However, our family has begun to prepare for the new school year.
Being a digital citizen is about working to ensure you are contributing to the health and well-being of your communities. How are you contributing to a positive culture online?
What happens online can have a real impact. It’s up to us whether the impact is positive or negative. What are some ways of using digital tech for good?