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Middle M/J Digital Discoveries 7

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Description

Get ready to dive into the exciting world of technology! In this course, you'll learn how to collaborate on projects using cool digital tools like video conferencing and shared documents, understand how computers work from the inside out, and even start coding your own programs using variables, loops, and logical expressions. You'll also explore how technology impacts your life, from helpful adaptive tools to responsible online behavior, all while boosting your problem-solving skills to tackle real-world challenges!

Follow the link below for the Department of Education description for this course: https://www.cpalms.org/PreviewCourse/Preview/23341

Segment One

·Maintaining health in a digital world
·Finding information in the digital age
·Creating quality content
·Collaborating in the digital space
·Tools for collaboration
·Hardware and software
·Software development cycle
·Algorithmic thinking
·Order of operations
·Variables
·Block coding
·Debugging
·Models and simulations
·Conditions and loops
·Functions and OOP

Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, the course guides students to reflect on their learning and evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of practice lessons, multiple choice questions, writing assignments, projects, research papers, oral assessments, and discussions. This course will use the state-approved grading scale. Each course contains a mandatory final exam or culminating project that will be weighted at 20% of the student’s overall grade.***

***Proctored exams can be requested by FLVS at any time and for any reason in an effort to ensure academic integrity. When a proctored exam is administered to assess a student’s integrity, the student must pass the exam with at least a 59.5% to earn credit for the course.