Web Development 10
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
Applied Design
Understanding context
- Engage in a period of research and empathetic observation
Defining
- Identify potential users, societal impacts, and other relevant contextual factors for a chosen design opportunity
- Identify criteria for success, intended impact, and any constraints or possible unintended impacts
Ideating
- Take creative risks in generating ideas and add to others’ ideas in ways that enhance them
- Screen ideas against criteria and constraints
- Collaborate on idea generation and maintain an open mind about potentially viable ideas
Prototyping
- Identify and use sources of inspiration and information
- Choose a form for prototyping and develop a plan that includes key stages and resources
- Prototype, making changes to tools, designs, and procedures as needed
- Record iterations of prototyping
Testing
- Identify sources of feedback
- Develop an appropriate test of the prototype
- Conduct the test, collect and compile data, evaluate data, and decide on changes
- Iterate the prototype or abandon the design idea
Making
- Identify and use appropriate tools, technologies, and processes for production
- Make a step-by-step plan for production and carry it out, making changes as needed
Sharing
- Decide on how and with whom to share product and processes
- Demonstrate the product to potential users, providing a rationale for selected solution, modifications, and procedures, using appropriate terminology
- Critically reflect on design thinking and processes, and identify new design goals
- Assess ability to work effectively both as individuals and collaboratively in a group, including ability to share and maintain an efficient cooperative work space
MediaSmarts Resources
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Celebrities and World Issues
- Digital Storytelling for Civic Engagement
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- First Person
- Images of Learning
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
- Privacy Rights of Children and Teens
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- Remixing Media
- Secure Comics
- The Invisible Machine: Big Data and You
- The Price of Happiness
- The Privacy Dilemma: Lesson Plan for Senior Classrooms
- Watching the Elections
Applied Skills
- Demonstrate an awareness of precautionary and emergency safety procedures in both physical and digital environments
- Identify the skills needed in relation to specific projects, and develop and refine them
MediaSmarts Resources
Applied Technologies
- Choose, adapt, and if necessary learn more about appropriate tools and technologies to use for tasks
- Evaluate impacts, including unintended negative consequences, of choices made about technology use
MediaSmarts Resources
- Challenging Hate Online
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Dealing with Digital Stress
- First, Do No Harm: Being an Active Witness to Cyberbullying
- Free Speech and the Internet
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate
- Online Cultures and Values
- Secure Comics
- The Invisible Machine: Big Data and You
- The Privacy Dilemma: Lesson Plan for Senior Classrooms
- Thinking about Hate
Content
Students are expected to know the following:
- design opportunities
- relationship between web structure and content, HTML, style and design, cascading style sheets (CSS), and website functionality and interactivity
- advantages/disadvantages of websites and content management systems (CMS)
- website design planning tools
- HTML text editing software, WYSIWYG HTML editors user interface (UI) and user experience (UX)
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards and responsive and optimized web design
- domain and hosting options
- copyright, Creative Commons, fair use protocols for media and content, and ethics of cultural appropriation
- accessibility and functionality in web design
- writing for the web
- principles of creative web design
- security and privacy implications
- principles of database creation and management
- career options in web development and the interpersonal skills necessary for success in this field
MediaSmarts Resources
- First Person
- Privacy Rights of Children and Teens
- Remixing Media
- Secure Comics
- The Privacy Dilemma: Lesson Plan for Senior Classrooms
- Your Online Resume