Common Planner
K–12 Standards

Technology: 9-12

Other West Virginia Technology and Computer Science sets

Empowered Learner

  • 1

    Articulate personal learning goals, select, and manage appropriate technologies to achieve them, and reflect on their successes and areas of improvement in working toward their goals.T.9-12.1

  • 2

    Develop online networks within school policy, and customize their learning environments in ways that support their learning.T.9-12.2

  • 3

    Utilize a variety of technologies efficiently and transfer their knowledge and skills to learn how to use new technologies. T.9-12.3

  • 4

    Select appropriate platforms and tools to create, share, and communicate their work effectively.T.9-12.4

  • 5

    Explore real-world issues and problems and actively pursue an understanding of them and solutions for them. T.9-12.5

  • 6

    Locate and collect resources from a variety of sources and organize assets into collections for a wide range of projects and purposes.T.9-12.6

  • 7

    Practice and demonstrate the ability to evaluate resources for accuracy, perspective, credibility, and relevance.T.9-12.7

  • 8

    Utilize research strategies effectively to locate appropriate digital resources across all content areas.T.9-12.8

Digital Citizens

  • 9

    Keep their personal data private and secure, including the awareness of terms such as encryption, HTTPS, passwords, cookies, and computer viruses; understand the limitations of data management and how data-collection technologies work. T.9-12.9

  • 10

    Understand how to manage digital identities and reputations within school policy, including demonstrating an understanding of how digital actions are never fully erasable.T.9-12.10

  • 11

    Demonstrate and advocate for positive, safe, legal, and ethical habits when using technology and when interacting with others online.T.9-12.11

  • 12

    Demonstrate and advocate for an understanding of intellectual property with both print and digital media including copyright, permission and fair use by creating a variety of media products that include appropriate citation and attribution elements. T.9-12.12

Knowledge Constructor 

  • 13

    Publish, present, and defend content designed for specific audiences and select platforms that will effectively convey their ideas to those audiences. T.9-12.13

  • 14

    Communicate complex ideas clearly using various digital tools to convey the concepts textually, visually, graphically, etc. T.9-12.14

  • 15

    Create original works or responsibly repurpose other digital resources into new creative works. T.9-12.15

Innovative Designer

  • 16

    Engage in a design process and employ it to generate ideas, create innovative products or solve authentic problems.T.9-12.16

  • 17

    Present ideas and information using appropriate tools that are appropriate for specific audiences.T.9-12.17

Computational Thinker

  • 18

    Find or organize relevant data and use technology to analyze and represent it in various ways to solve problems and make decisions.T.9-12.18

  • 19

    Apply evaluation strategies when using electronic resources (such as publication/copyright date, fact vs. fiction, sources, credibility, ease of use).T.9-12.19

Creative Communicator

  • 20

    Actively seek performance feedback from people, including teachers, and from functionalities embedded in digital tools to improve their learning process, and select technology to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.T.9-12.20

  • 21

    Use communication tools (such as email, discussion boards, online conferences, learning management systems, portfolios) to gather information, share ideas and respond to questions. T.9-12.21

Global Collaborator

  • 22

    Use collaborative technologies to connect with others, including peers, experts, and community members, to learn about issues and problems or to gain a broader perspective.T.9-12.22

  • 23

    Use digital tools to interact with others to mutually develop a richer understanding of different perspectives and cultures.T.9-12.23

  • 24

    Explore local and global issues and select collaborative technologies to use to work with others to investigate and develop solutions. T.9-12.24

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What grade levels do these standards cover?
Grade 9, Grade 11, Grade 10, and Grade 12

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