Alberta Outcome Chart: Information and Communication Technology Division 2
By the end of Grade 6:
| Communicating, Inquiring, Decision Making and Problem Solving |
| C-3 Students will critically assess information accessed through the use of a variety of technologies. - identify and distinguish points of view expressed in electronic sources on a particular topic
- recognize that information serves different purposes and that data from electronic sources may need to be verified to determine accuracy or relevance for the purpose used
| Lessons Introducing the Internet: Telephones and Networks
Introducing the Internet: Messages, Envelopes, Addresses
Introducing the Internet: Exploring the Internet Activities
Research Relay Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) MNet Special Initiatives
Cybersense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three CyberPigs |
| Foundational Operations, Knowledge and Concepts |
| F-2 Students will understand the role of technology as it applies to self, work and society. - assess the personal significance of having limitless access to information provided by communication networks, such as the Internet
- describe, using examples, how communication and information networks, such as the telephone and the Internet, create a global community
F-3 Students will demonstrate a moral and ethical approach to the use of technology. - comply with the acceptable use policy of the school and school authority for Internet and networked services, including software licensing agreements
- respect the privacy and products of others
- use electronic networks in an ethical manner
- comply with copyright legislation
F-4 Students will become discerning consumers of mass media and electronic information. - recognize that graphics, video and sound enhance communication
- describe how the use of various texts and graphics can alter perception
- discuss how technology can be used to create special effects and/or to manipulate intent through the use of images and sound
| Lessons Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking
Tale of Two Cities
Deconstructing Web Pages
Protecting Your Privacy on the Internet
Joe Cool or Joe Fool
What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
Co-Co’s Adversmarts Classroom Activities and Handouts
Internet Checklist for Kids: 9-12
Internet: Cyberhistory 101
Protecting Your Privacy on Commercial Web Sites
5 W's of Cyberspace Backgrounders
Acceptable Use Policies
Evaluating Internet-Based Information:
A Goals-Based Approach
Evaluating Internet Research Sources
How To Discourage Plagiarism Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)
MNet Special Initiatives
Cybersense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three CyberPigs
Background information for teachers about the Internet and Internet issues can be found in the following Web Awareness Canada sections:
Teaching Kids to be Safe and Responsible Online
Kids for Sale: Online Marketing to Kids and Privacy Issues
Fact or Folly |
