Grade 10 - Foundations

PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES

• practise and reinforce their keyboarding skills
• demonstrate the ability to formulate questions and to use a variety of sources and tools to access, capture, and store information
• demonstrate the ability to program information technology tools
• use programming effectively to create products or systems
• practise handling Internet information in an ethical way
• demonstrate an awareness of the impact of electronic resources on education, careers, and recreation
• evaluate the impact of information technology tools on the workplace, on individuals, and on society
• compare the use of information technology in different job settings within the community
• demonstrate competence in using basic information technology tools

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SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

• Have students demonstrate their abilities to use appropriate data-entry and keyboarding skills in a variety of curriculum areas by using information technology tools to produce research documents involving text, print, and original graphics.
• Ask each student to use electronic resources in the school library or career centre (e.g., Bridges, Choices, Job Factory, Chronicle Careers) to research and develop a report on three careers that involve the extensive use of information technology. Then have them present their reports using video or multimedia.
• Invite groups of students to each locate someone in the community who uses information technology tools as an important part of his or her job. Have each group conduct an e-mail, a telephone, or a personal interview to develop a profile of the information technology skills required to do the job. Encourage groups to record the responses they obtain on forms or to produce a document based on the responses.
• Suggest that students use an Internet browser to capture and save research information for projects, such as:
  • social studies: Find information on the climatic regions of Canada.
  • science: Locate a web page that leads to topics on the production of electricity.
  • English: Visit a web page devoted to Shakespeare.
  • business education: Find information on the latest consumer craze in the teen market.
• Have students work in teams to develop criteria for purchasing an information technology tool (e.g., a computer, software, a fax machine). Suggest that they evaluate available products based on these criteria.

SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES

• Have students work with partners to use a variety of browsers (e.g., Fetch, Gopher, and web browsers) to locate and retrieve electronic information. Note the extent to which they are able to:
  • enter Internet addresses accurately
  • effectively use tools to search file transfer protocol (FTP) sites for information
  • use appropriate keywords to define the parameters of their searches
  • use "bookmarks" or "hotlists" to mark relevant sources
  • create folders to receive downloaded information
• As students use video or digital cameras to capture and store data related to a project, observe the extent to which they are able to:
  • efficiently use the functions and special features of the equipment
  • successfully capture images on videotape or video cards and transfer digitized data to various software
  • choose appropriate sources for data collection
• After students interview community members who use information technology tools in their jobs, have them reflect on what they learned by answering questions such as:
  • How have societal demands influenced change in information technology?
  • How have advances in information technology affected the workplace?
  • How have information technology tools affected individual productivity?
• Have each student code and document a simple program using an appropriate programming language. Note the extent to which:
  • instructions are logically sequenced
  • correct syntax, grammar, and style are used
  • the program is free of logic error
  • the program runs successfully

RECOMMENDED LEARNING RESOURCES

• All About Computers
• Computers: A Visual Encyclopedia
• Computers Illustrated
• Desktop Publishing: Design Basics and Applications
• How Multimedia Works
• How the Internet Works
• How to Use THE INTERNET
• How Virtual Reality Works
• The Internet by E-Mail
• Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary: The Comprehensive Standard for Business, School, Library and Home, Second Edition
• More Data Processing Applications
• Que's 1996 Computer & Internet Dictionary, 6th Edition
• The Technological Classroom

• Computer Integrated Manufacturing
• Highway to Cyberia
• Inventing the Future
• The Paperback Computer
• The Thinking Machine

• All the Right Type
• The Cruncher
• Digital Chisel

• PC/Computing: How Computers Work

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