Standards for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Grade 12

Social and Ethical Issues Students understand the ethical, cultural and societal issues related to ICT. Students practice responsible use of ICT systems, information, and software.	Research and Inquiry Students use and transfer ICT knowledge to locate, retrieve, organize, manipulate, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information for specific research tasks.•
By the end of Grade 12 students will: analyze advantages and disadvantages of widespread use and reliance on ICT in the workplace and society, and identify consequences to make informed civic, social, and economic decisions; identify capabilities and limitations of contemporary and emerging ICT resources and assess the potential of these systems to address personal, lifelong-learning, and workplace needs; apply ethical and legal standards in planning, using, and evaluating ICT and intellectual property (e.g., demonstrate responsible use of resources, processes, and systems of technology); demonstrate and advocate for legal and ethical behaviour among peers, family, and community regarding the use of ICT and information; evaluate ICT-based options, including distance and distributed education for lifelong learning (e.g., investigate advantages and disadvantages of distance learning and virtual libraries).	By the end of Grade 12 students will: create and follow an independent research plan (e.g., use time or project management software to assist in conducting an inquiry); plan and perform complex searches using a variety of search strategies; select and apply appropriate ICT tools for research, information analysis, problem solving, and decision making in content areas (e.g., analyze and assess the newspaper, television, radio, and Internet coverage of a conflict or uprising -ENG4U); identify and analyze the appropriate ICT resources for research and problem solving (e.g., evaluate print and electronic sources about food and nutrition for bias, accuracy, validity, authority, and relevance -HFA4M); investigate and solve problems of prediction, calculation, and inference during an inquiry (e.g., manipulate data by using charting and graphing technologies in order to test inferences and probabilities); analyze and synthesize information to determine patterns and links among ideas; recognize and integrate personal learning styles in research and problem solving.
Communication and Collaboration Students collaborate using ICT. Students use ICT to communicate knowledge in a variety of forms and media, for different purposes and audiences.	Productivity and Applications Students understand how to use the range of ICT tools for research, inquiry, problem solving, decision making, creativity, communication, and collaboration.
By the end of Grade 12 students will: routinely use and evaluate different combinations of graphic organizers and data-management software (e.g., effectively use current information technology to compile quantitative data and present statistical analysis of data-HHS4M); continue to design, present, and review multimedia projects (e.g., produce a digital portfolio of artworks using analog and digital encoding procedures; CD-ROM, interactive multimedia work, Internet site -ASM4O); manage and evaluate sustained collaboration among peers, teachers, and others, using a wide variety of ICT communication tools, to develop and review projects for local and global audiences; design, adapt, and review presentation and transition methods for a variety of audiences and purposes.	By the end of Grade 12 students will: accomplish curriculum-based tasks by using integrated tool software effectively and efficiently (e.g., create electronically, a multimedia interview presentation -BTX4E); create advanced relational databases and spreadsheets, linked to other software programs, to output information in a variety of ways; create, modify, post, and evaluate web sites featuring multiple link pages on the World Wide Web or on a local network; understand the function of virtual modelling in problem solving and project development (e.g., investigate the structures of biological molecules and functional groups using computer-generated, three-dimensional images and/or by building molecular models of simple carbohydrates, amino acids, simple polypeptides-SBI4U); make informed choices among ICT systems, resources, and services (e.g., appropriate use of raster and/or vector data within a specific G.I.S. platform -CGO4M).

Critical and Creative Thinking Using ICT, students will enhance their critical and creative thinking skills, including problem solving and decision making.