Info-Tech Lit Curriculum Notes - February 2008

1.         This curriculum has been designed specifically for   Budlong  School’s set up;
        *           K – 4^th graders use a Mac lab
        *           5^th – 8^th graders use a Windows lab. 

Consequently some concepts are re-visited in the upper grades so students understand that the concepts are the same although the operating system is different.

While we encourage others to use this curriculum, we ask that if your school uses 90% or more without making any changes that you:

    a.  Credit Budlong  School  and  Barbara Beyers if you post this curriculum on a website or distribute printed copies.

   b.   Email  Barbara Beyers @bebeyers@cps.edu to let her know you are using this curriculum.

Please also email Barbara to share any suggestions/lessons/units/webquests which could be used to teach these concepts and she will credit your input.  

2.         This curriculum is a work in progress and will continue to be refined after reviewing it with classroom teachers.

3.         Alignment with NETS and ILS will be included by the end of Oct. 2007.

4.         Lessons/units will be developed along with assessments.  Ideally lessons will be developed with the grade-level teachers to address grade-level content while teaching the Info-Tech Lit skills.  These units would be taught collaboratively.

For example, to introduce/reinforce the concept of data and interpreting graphs students will develop a survey for SS or LA.  For homework they will collect the data and during math class they will use graphing paper to hand draw a graph of the data.  Finally, they will bring the data and their hand-drawn graphs to the Info-Tech lab to learn how to use a spreadsheet to graph the data.

While students will be scheduled once or twice a week for Info-Tech Lit in the lab, some lessons/projects will require additional time in the lab.