Digital Literacy Instructional Guide

● I can identify and describe key features of calendaring. Language Functions & Features: ■ Generalized nouns to introduce a topic and/or entity ■ Opening statements to identify the type of information

■ Verbs to defne career pathways or attributes (eg. have, be, belong to, consist of) ■ Expanded noun groups to defne key concepts, add details, or classify information ■ Reporting devices to acknowledge outside sources and integrate information into the report as in saying verbs and direct quotes ■ Technical word choices to defne and classify the entity ■ Adjectives and adverbs to answer questions about quantity, size, shape, manner ( descriptions) Performance Skill: Students will create a digital fle management system that organizes their created artifacts to keep a record of learning experiences throughout the course. Differentiation in Action Skill Building File Management: ● Simulated Tasks of fle organization ● File Cleanup Day ● File Management Scavenger Hunt Software Programs and Features ● Interactive Workshops of a user interface ● Daily exercises of keyboard shortcuts, command buttons, etc. Word Processing ● Document Creation according to a rubric ● Use a template for a project ● Guided practice of inserting tables, images, etc. ● Formatting Contest Spreadsheets ● Budgeting Exercises ● Data Analysis Project: Class height comparison chart Presentation Programs ● Creative projects on an assigned topic ● Showcase events of the individual presentation Calendaring

● Classroom or personal calendar activity ● Scenario-based exercise to plan an event ● Research project on the available calendar apps

● File recovery and backup challenges ● Customized Shortcut creation ● Interface design project ● Document Collaboration Project

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