DLCS Educator Resources

Computing and Society

1. Understand safety and security concepts, online identity, and privacy, and how to deal with cyberbullying and inappropriate content in a computing setting. (Standards: K-2.CAS.a, 3-5.CAS.a, and 6-8.CAS.a)

2. Demonstrate responsible use of technology, digital content, and social media interactions and understand the consequences of inappropriate technology uses. (Standards: K-2.CAS.b, 3-5.CAS.b, and 6-8.CAS.b)

3. Recognize, analyze, and evaluate the impact of technology and digital media bias and messaging in schools, communities, and societies. (Standards: K-2.CAS.c, 3-5.CAS.c, and 6-8.CAS.c)

Digital Tools & Collaboration and Computing Systems

4. Selection and use of digital tools or resources and computing devices to create an artifact, solve a problem, communicate, publish online or accomplish a real-world task. (Standards: K-2.DTC.a, 3-5.DTC.a, 6-8.DTC.a, K-2.DTC.b, 3-5.DTC.b, 6-8.DTC.b, K-2.CS.a, 3-5.CS.a, and 6-8.CS.a)

5. Use of advanced research skills including advanced searches, digital source evaluation, synthesis of information, and appropriate digital citation. (Standards: K-2.DTC.c, 3-5.DTC.c, and 6-8.DTC.c)

Computing Systems

6. Understand how computing device components work. Use of troubleshooting strategies to solve routine hardware and software problems. (Standards: K-2.CS.a, 3-5.CS.a, 6-8.CS.a, K-2.CS.b, 3-5.CS.b, and 6-8.CS.b)

7. Understand how networks communicate, their vulnerabilities and issues that may impact their functionality. Understand the capabilities services can provide. (Standards: K-2.CS.c, 3-5.CS.c, 6-8.CS.c, K-2.CS.d, 3-5.CS.d, and 6-8.CS.d)

Computational Thinking

8. Creation of new representations, through generalization and decomposition. Write and debug algorithms in a structured language. (Standards: K-2.CT.a, 3-5.CT.a, 6-8.CT.a, K-2.CT.b, 3-5.CT.b, and 6-8.CT.b)

9. Understand how different data representation affects storage and quality. Create, modify, and manipulate data structures, data sets, and data visualizations. (Standards: K-2.CT.c, 3-5.CT.c, and 6-8.CT.c)

10. Decompose tasks/problems into sub-problems to plan solutions. (Standards: K-2.CT.d, 3-5.CT.d, and 6-8.CT.d)

11. Creation of programs (any standard programming language and any block-based programing language) using an iterative design process to create an artifact or solve a problem. (Standards: K-2.CT.d, 3-5.CT.d, and 6-8.CT.d)

12. Creation of models and simulations to formulate, test, analyze, and refine a hypothesis. (Standards: K-2.CT.e, 3-5.CT.e, and 6-8.CT.e)

The Instructional Technology and DLCS subject matter knowledge requirement crosswalk resource identifies five overlapping requirements out of twelve competencies required to obtain a DLCS PreK–6 license. As indicated below, DLCS PreK-6 subject matter knowledge requirements #1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are met by the Instructional Technology Teacher and Specialist licenses.