Standards

NETs STANDARDS.  

iste.org/nets for more detailed descriptions of the below standards.

1.	Creativity and Innovation
	Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students:
	a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes. b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression. c. use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues.

3.	Research and Information Fluency
	Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students:
	b. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.

5.	Digital Citizenship
	Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students:
	a. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology. b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity. c. demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning. d. exhibit leadership for digital citizenship.

6.	Technology Operations and Concepts
	Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations. Students:
	a. understand and use technology systems. b. select and use applications effectively and productively. c. troubleshoot systems and applications. d. transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies.

P21.

          INFORMATION LITERACY

        Access and Evaluate Information

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  Access information efficiently (time) and effectively (sources)

  
  
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  Evaluate information critically and competently

  
  
  
  

  Use and Manage Information

  
  

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  Use information accurately and creatively for the issue or problem at hand 

0. COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION 
   Communicate Clearly 
• Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts
  
• Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes and intentions
  
• Use communication for a range of purposes (e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate and persuade)
  
• Utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to judge their effectiveness a priori as well as assess their impact 
  

0. CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION 
   Think Creatively 
• Use a wide range of idea creation techniques (such as brainstorming)
  
• Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts)
  
• Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve and 
  maximize creative efforts 
  Work Creatively with Others 
• Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others effectively
  
• Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives; incorporate group 
  input and feedback into the work 
• Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real 
  world limits to adopting new ideas 
• View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and 
  innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent mistakes 

STATE STANDARDS.  www.education.ohio.gov

             8th Grade Visual Arts.

·       4PR Present personal artworks that show competence in the use of art elements to create meanings and effects.

·       2PR Demonstrate increased technical skill and craftsmanship by using more complex processes and materials to design and create two- and three-dimensional artworks.