Week 1 Assignment, Part 4

According to the Pre-K TEKS, Pre-K students are introduced to technology by beginning to use keyboards and learning key strokes, accessing information by ways of text, audio, video and graphics, using different age appropriate software, using the CD-ROM & using the printer. They become familiar with the parts and components of the computer. This lays the foundation for future grades because it provides students with a solid background knowledge so that the students can move on to the next steps in technology learning. Spiraling and scaffolding curriculum is designed to emphasize activities that promote high expectations and increased academic achievement by teaching broad concepts in the lower grades and filling out those concepts with richer detail and depth for higher level thinking in the upper grades. This provides multiple opportunities for students to learn and understand technology. If a student does not understand what an operating system is in kindergarten a student is provided another opportunity in first, second and so on grades when teachers spiral review the information they should already know. Students will have other opportunities to learn the information and master the knowledge and skills along the way if not introduced earlier. A problem that I've seen in my classes is that I have students in high school that still do not know how to locate folders and drives and do not know how to save properly. This makes it very difficult to teach Communication Graphics when we have to spend a lot of time on computer basics that should have been introduced in elementary school.