Well, if everyone remembers, I lamented last week about the focus we are placing on children "having" to learn technological literacy skills. I wanted to find the scope and sequence for what children need to learn at each grade level in terms of technological literacy and was quite disappointed when I did not find this information on Sask. Learning (at least I didn't see it). As I was researching various school divisions I happened up this document on the Saskatoon Catholic website
Technological Literacy Scope and Sequence
Wow! I can say I was impressed to say the least. Looking at the document, it's not much, but it's better than the nothing I seemed to find on the Sask. Learning website. I also noticed that my experiences in internship do not exactly match up with this 3 years out of date document. My kids in Grade 1 could work with pictures and use a mouse without instruction. So do we need to set the bar even HIGHER in terms of the technological objectives we want to meet because students are coming with such a rich background now? What about the kids who don't get that background because they don't have a computer at home? This is all really interesting to me and something I would like to investigate further!
1 comment:
Hey Jenn!
I totally agree with you on being disappointed that the Sask. Learning website did not have any information on what children should be learning in the technological sense. I also agree that we should set the bar higher for children when working with technology, especially computers. Kids today are so far advanced and often know more than the teachers. I think that we can learn from them and if we set the bar higher that will happen!
Jade
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