Course Goals:

1. Develop, use, and build reflective thinking about the computer and other technologies for lifelong learning;

2. Identify and use problem-solving applications for using computers and other technologies, including:
   • Relating problem-solving and visualization processes,
   • Using the computer as a tool for exploration of spatial and geometric relationships for coordinating space and number through computer graphics,
   • Employing the computer as a tool for creating motion graphics and relate to breaking a problem into component parts,
   • Applying computer graphics to visualize logic concepts,
   • Using problem-solving strategies as programming techniques for developing graphics programs,
   • Applying graphic patterns as a tool for developing algorithm formation,
   • Writing simple problem-solving instructional software programs,
   • Applying problem-solving techniques to written communication to communicate about problem-solving experiences,
   • Employing spreadsheet and data base programs as problem-solving instruction tools,
   • Using computer graphics programs for developing visualization processes of concepts.
   • Identifying characteristics of modeling and simulation and describe ways of using simulation as a tool for developing problem-solving processes.

3. Make use of the World Wide Web and other telecommunications capabilities for searching for, retrieving, linking, and communicating about information for lifelong learning;

4. Identify and discuss technology education issues as related to the development of problem-solving processes.