Middle M/J Grade 6 Digital Discoveries

Segment One

·Legacy devices

·Human-computer interaction

·Input and output

·Augmented reality

·Virtual reality

·Computer language

·Number systems

·Decomposition and abstraction

·Algorithmic thinking

·Digital footprint and identity

·Safe surfing

·Access control

·Identifying quality online content

·Intellectual property and fair use

·Healthy and unhealthy device usage

·Creating with digital tools

·Collaboration skills

·File types and extensions

·Desktop and cloud applications

·Usable and miscellaneous data

·Visualizing data

·Artificial intelligence

·Models and simulations

·Programming data types

·Variables

·Input and output

·Conditions and iteration

·Lists

·Functions

·Tracing and testing
 

 

Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, the course guides students to reflect on their learning and evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of practice lessons, multiple choice questions, writing assignments, projects, research papers, oral assessments, and discussions. This course will use the state-approved grading scale. Each course contains a mandatory final exam or culminating project that will be weighted at 20% of the student’s overall grade.***

***Proctored exams can be requested by FLVS at any time and for any reason in an effort to ensure academic integrity. When a proctored exam is administered to assess a student’s integrity, the student must pass the exam with at least a 59.5% to earn credit for the course.

To achieve success, students are expected to submit work in each course weekly. Students can learn at their own pace; however, “any pace” still means that students must make progress in the course every week. To measure learning, students complete self-checks, practice lessons, multiple choice questions, projects, discussion-based assessments, and discussions. Students are expected to maintain regular contact with teachers; the minimum requirement is monthly. When teachers, students, and parents work together, students are successful.