The Pre-K Technology TEKS lay the foundation for the Technology Application TEKS throughout the Elementary and Middle School. They are not divided into domains but they deal with the fundamental skills that students will need to be successful in mastering the TEKS in the following grades. They focus on the Fundamental Domain by expecting the student to start and end programs correctly while using various data entry devices. They also address the Information Acquisition Domain by having the student follow basic directions for operating programs, listening to and interacting with stories on-line and developing vocabulary from various software packages and styles.
The Technology Application TEKS spiral in their progression of skill development. Students are afforded the opportunity to encounter, master, and enrich the same skills at various grade levels. Beginning at the Pre-K level, students are expected to use various input devices and technical terminology. This Foundation Domain strand follows through to the Eighth Grade. At each level, the schema from the previous level is built upon to increase the student’s knowledge from existing knowledge. Students are expected to be able to choose the most appropriate soft ware platform to manage data and tasks across the grade levels also.
Spiraling of the curriculum allows the student to develop proficiency and metacognition over time in a skill through repeated exposure to it. This assimilation of knowledge allows for the student to draw upon past knowledge for comparison when encountering new skills and schema. The benefit is a greater permanence of learning and retention.
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