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This is where the Computer Department will collaborate on the rewrite of their curriculum planned for the 2011-12 school year.
Why are we changing our curriculum? Our current curriculum centers around student mastery of certain computer softwares and we are expanding it to include lessons that teach the use of technology to support personal productivity, group collaboration, and self-directed learning. The revised curriculum will also teach students how to become good digital citizens in the 21st century.

While the teachers in our department have been moving in the direction of the national ISTE standards for the past few years (International Society for Technology in Education) we recently added a Digital Citizenship unit to formalize the skills we are teaching. We believe that all students need to create, communicate and collaborate with the new tools of the Read/Write web (web-based applications) that are revolutionizing the way students think and learn in the 21st Century.

Today’s learner needs to be proficient in the following digital literacies:
 * 1) How to interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, and others online and form personal learning networks.
 * 2) How to locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.
 * 3) How to make sense of complex information and make connections between various concepts.
 * 4) How to aggregate the constant flow of information.
 * 5) How to become lifelong learners.

Many times a picture (or video in this case) is worth a thousand words. This will give you an idea of the kind of digital skills the revised curriculum will cover.

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