Correlation With Information And Communications Technologies (ICT) Information Support And Services Pathway And Common Core State Standards

 

MOUSE Squad Specialist Certification

Outcomes

 

Serious Games

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Industry Sector

Knowledge and Performance Anchor Standards

 

Software and Systems Development Pathway Standards

(Pathway D)

6-12 College & Career Readiness

Anchor Standards for

 Reading, Language, Writing

 

11-12 CC English Language Arts Standards

Listening Skills/Reading Skills Informational Text/Writing Skills

CC Mathematics Standards

Algebra/ Functions/Geometry

Numbers/Statistics

CC Mathematics Standards

Algebra/ Functions/Geometry

Numbers/Statistics

 

6-12 College & Career ELA Literacy Standards

9-12 CC Life Science Standards

9-12 CC History/Social Science Standards

American Democracy

US History/World History

8 Introduce Serious Games

8 Introduce Gamestar Mechanic

8 Learn the basic components of a game: Play vs Game, Goals, Obstacles, Chance, Mechanics

8 Play serious games

8 Select a social issue and learn about it

8 Learn brainstorming through grow-a-game

8 Learn Iteration

8 Finalize game idea

8 Produce media for their game

8 Explore Gaming communities

8 Build and share a multi-media game pitch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.0 Academics Analyze & apply appropriate academic standards

 

2.0 Communications Acquire & accurately use ICT terminology in oral, written, and multimedia formats

 

3.0 Career Planning & Mgmt Integrate sources of career information to manage career plans

 

4.0 Technology Use technology to investigate, research and produce products and services

 

5.0 Problem Solving & Critical Thinking Research to create alternative solutions to answer a question or solve a problem

 

6.0 Health & Safety Demonstrate health & safety procedures, regulations, and personal health practices

 

7.0 Responsibility & Flexibility Initiate and participate in collaborations reflecting professional responsibility, flexibility, and respect

 

8.0 Ethics & Legal Responsibilities Practice professional, ethical, and legal behavior

 

9.0 Leadership & Teamwork Work with peers to promote creative perspectives, effective leadership, group dynamics, workforce diversity, conflict resolution 

 

10.0 Technical Knowledge and Skills Apply essential technical knowledge & skills common to all pathways

 

11.0 Demonstration & Application of ICT standards in classroom, lab, and workplace settings

D1.0 Identify and describe critical game and simulation studies, the resulting  societal impact, and the management,  industry, and career requirements.

D1.1 Categorize the different gaming genres and gaming systems.

 

D2.0 Demonstrate an understanding of game and simulation analysis, design, standard documentation, and development tools.

D2.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the vocabulary for discussing games and play by listing and describing the general procedure and requirements of game and simulation design.

 

D3.0 Create a working game or simulation individually or as part of a team.

D3.1 Create a storyboard describing the essential elements, plot, flow, and functions of the game/simulation.

D3.2 Create a design specification document to include interface and delivery choices, rules of play, navigation functionality, scoring, media choices, start and end of play, special features, and development team credits.

D3.3 Using simple game development tools, create a game or simulation.

D3.4 Present the game or simulation.

 

D4.0 Identify, describe, and implement standard game/ simulation strategy and rules of play.

 

D5.0 Integrate music, sound, art, and animation as it applies to the environmental design of the game/simulation.

 

D6.0 Explain the role and principles of event modeling and interface design and apply those principles in a game/simulation design and project.

 

D7.0 Acquire and apply appropriate programming skills for rendering a single player or multiuser game or simulation project, including program control, conditional branching, memory management, scorekeeping, timed event strategies, and implementation issues.

 

D8.0 Acquire and apply appropriate artificial intelligence (AI) techniques used by the game development industry.

6-12 CC ELA Language Standards

CCRAS Reading 6-12

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

7 Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.

 

CCRAS Language 6-12

Conventions of Standard English

1&2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking along with command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

 

Knowledge of Language

3 Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.

 

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

5 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

6 Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when encountering an unknown term important to comprehension or expression. 

 

CCRAS Writing 6-12

Production and Distribution of Writing

6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.

 

Research to Build and Present Knowledge

7 Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.

 

CCRAS Speaking & Listening 6-12

Comprehension and Collaboration

2 Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

 

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

5 Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.

CCELAS LS.11-12.1. Demonstrate command of conventions of English grammar & usage in writing or speaking

CCELAS LS.11-12.2. Demonstrate command of conventions of  English capitalization, punctuation, & spelling when writing

CCELAS LS.11-12.3. Understand how language functions in different contexts to make effective choices for meaning or style, & comprehend more fully in reading or listening

CCELAS LS.11-12.4. Clarify meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases

CCELAS LS.11-12.5. Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, & nuances

CCELAS LS.11-12.6. Acquire & use general academic & domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking & listening at college & career readiness

 

11-12 ELA Reading Skills Informational Text Standards

CCELA RSIT.11-12.1. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text

CCELAS RSIT.11-12.2. Determine two or more central ideas and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text

CCELAS RSIT.11-12.3. Analyze complex ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over  course of  text

CCELAS RSIT.11-12.5. Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.

CCELAS RSIT.11-12.7. Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats to address a question or solve a problem

 

11-12 ELA Writing Skills Standards

CCELA WS.11-12.1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence

CCELA WS.11-12.2. Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content

CCELA WS.11-12.3 Write narratives to develop real or imaged experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences

CCELAS WS.11-12.4. Produce clear & coherent writing with development, organization, & style appropriate to task, purpose, and audience

CCELAS WS.11-12.5. Develop & strengthen writing by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, focusing on addressing the most significant for purpose and audience

CCSS WS.11-12.6. Use technology, incl. Internet, to produce, publish, & update individual or shared textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts

CCELAS WS.11-12.7. Conduct short as well as sustained research projects to answer a question or solve a problem; synthesize multiple sources, demonstrating understanding of subject under investigation

CCELAS WS.11-12.8. Gather relevant information from multiple sources; assess strengths and limitations; integrate information into text, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source, following standard format for citation

CCELAS WS.11-12.9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts support analysis, reflection, & research

9-12 CC Mathematics Standards

 

Create equations that describe numbers or relationships

CCMS Algebra.CED .1 Create equations and inequalities in one variable including ones with absolute value and use them to solve problems in and out of context, including equations arising from linear functions.

CCMS Algebra.CED .2 Create equations in two or more variables to represent relationships between quantities; graph equations on coordinate axes with labels and scales

CCMS Algebra.CED.3. Represent constraints by equations or inequalities, and by systems of equations and/or inequalities, and interpret solutions as viable or nonviable options in a modeling context

CCMS Algebra.CED.4. Rearrange formulas to highlight a quantity of interest, using the same reasoning as in solving equations

 

Understand solving equations as a process of reasoning and explain the reasoning

CCMS Algebra.REI.1 Explain each step in solving a simple equation as following from the equality of numbers asserted at the previous step, starting from the assumption that the original equation has a solution

CCMS Algebra.REI.2 Solve simple rational and radical equations in one variable

 

Understand the concept of a function and use function notation

CCMS Functions.IF.1 Understand that a function from one set (called the domain) to another set (called the range) assigns to each element of the domain exactly one element of the range

 

CCMS Functions.IF.2 Use function notation, evaluate functions for inputs in their domains, and interpret statements that use function notation in terms of a context

CCMS Functions.IF.3 Recognize that sequences are functions, sometimes defined recursively, whose domain is a subset of the integers

 

Interpret functions that arise in applications in terms of the context

CCMS Functions.IF.4 For a function that models a relationship between two quantities, interpret key features of graphs and tables in terms of the quantities, and sketch graphs showing key features given a verbal description of the relationship

 

CCMS Functions.IF.5 Relate the domain of a function to its graph and, where applicable, to the quantitative relationship it describes

 

Extend the properties of exponents to rational exponents

CCMS Numbers&Quantities.RN.1 Explain how the definition of the meaning of rational exponents follows from extending the properties of integer exponents to those values, allowing for a notation for radicals in terms of rational exponents

CCMS Numbers&Quantities..RN.2 Rewrite expressions involving radicals and rational exponents using the properties of exponents

Reason quantities and use units to solve problems

CCMS Numbers&Quantities.NQ.1 Use units as a way to understand problems and to guide the solution of multi-step problems

CCMS Numbers&Quantities.NQ.2 Define appropriate quantities for the purpose of descriptive modeling.

CCMS Numbers&Quantities.NQ.3 Choose a level of accuracy appropriate to limitations on measurement when reporting quantities

 

Represent complex numbers and their operations on

the complex plane

CCMS Numbers&Quantities.N.CN.4 Represent complex numbers on the complex plane in rectangular and polar form (including real and imaginary numbers

CCMS Numbers&Quantities.N.CN.5 Represent addition, subtraction, multiplication, and conjugation of complex numbers geometrically on the complex plane

 

CCMS Numbers&Quantities.N.CN.6 Calculate the distance between numbers in the complex plane as the modulus of the difference, and the midpoint of a segment as the average of the numbers at its endpoints

 

Perform operations on matrices and use matrices in applications

CCMS Numbers&Quantities.VM.6 Use matrices to represent and manipulate data, e.g., to represent payoffs or incidence relationships in a network.

NCCMS umbers&Quantities.VM.7 Multiply matrices by scalars to produce new matrices, e.g., as when all of the payoffs in a game are doubled

CCMS Numbers&Quantities.VM.8 Add, subtract, and multiply matrices of appropriate dimensions

CCMS Numbers&Quantities.VM.9 Understand that, unlike multiplication of numbers, matrix multiplication for square matrices is not a commutative operation, but still satisfies the associative and distributive properties

CCMS Numbers&Quantities.VM.10 Understand that the zero and identity matrices play a role in matrix addition and multiplication similar to the role of 0 and 1 in the real numbers

CCMS Numbers&Quantities.VM.11 Multiply a vector (regarded as a matrix with one column) by a matrix of suitable dimensions to produce another vector

CCMS Numbers&Quantities.VM.12 Work with 2 x 2 matrices as transformations of the plane, and interpret the absolute value of the determinant in terms of area

 

Understand and evaluate random processes underlying statistical experiments

CCMS Statistics.IC.1 Understand statistics as a process for making inferences about population parameters based on a random sample from that population

CCMS Statistics.IC.2 Decide if a specified model is consistent with results from a given data-generating process, e.g. using simulation

9-12 CC Mathematics Standards

 

CCMS Functions.IF.6 Calculate and interpret the average rate of change of a function (presented symbolically or as a table) over a specified interval

 

Analyze functions using different representations

CCMS Functions.IF.7 Graph functions expressed symbolically and show key features of the graph, by hand in simple cases and using technology for more complicated cases.

CCMS Functions.IF.8 Write a function defined by an expression in different but equivalent forms to reveal and explain different properties of the function

CCMS Functions.IF.9 Compare properties of two functions each represented in a different way

CCMS Functions.IF.10 Demonstrate an understanding of functions and equations defined parametrically and graph

 

Interpret expressions for functions in terms of the situation they model

CCMS Functions.LE.5 Interpret the parameters in a linear or exponential function in terms of a context

CCMS Functions.LE.6 Apply quadratic equations to physical problems, such as the motion of an object under the force of

 

Use coordinates to prove simple geometric theorems algebraically

CCMS Geometry.GPE.4 Use coordinates to prove simple geometric theorems algebraically

CCMS Geometry.GPE.5 Prove the slope criteria for parallel and perpendicular lines and use them to solve geometric problems

CCMS Geometry.GPE.6 Find the point on a directed line segment between two given points that partitions the segment in a given ratio

CCMS Geometry.GPE.7 Use coordinates to compute perimeters of polygons and areas of triangles and rectangles

 

Apply geometric concepts in modeling situations

CCMS Geometry.MG.1. Use geometric shapes, their measures, and their properties to describe objects

CCMS Geometry.MG.2. Apply concepts of density based on area and volume in modeling situations

CCMS Geometry.MG.3 Apply geometric methods to solve design problems

 

Make inferences and justify conclusions from sample surveys, experiments, and observational studies

CCMS Statistics.IC.3 Recognize the purposes of and differences among sample surveys, experiments, and observational studies; explain how randomization relates to each

CCMS Statistics.IC.5 Use data from a randomized experiment to compare two treatments; use simulations to decide if differences between parameters are significant

CCMS Statistics.IC.6 Evaluate reports based on data

 

Summarize, represent, and interpret data on a single count or measurement variable

CCMS Statistics.ID.1 Represent data with plots on the real number line (dot plots, histograms, and box plots

CCMS Statistics.ID.2 Use statistics appropriate to the shape of the data distribution to compare center (median, mean) and spread (interquartile range, standard deviation) of two or more different data sets

CCMS Statistics.ID.3 Interpret differences in shape, center, and spread in the context of the data sets, accounting for possible effects of extreme data points (outliers

CCMS Statistics.ID.4 Use the mean and standard deviation of a data set to fit it to a normal distribution and to estimate population percentages

 

Summarize, represent, and interpret data on two categorical and quantitative variables

CCMS Statistics.ID.5 Summarize categorical data for two categories in two-way frequency tables. Interpret relative frequencies in the context of the data

CCMS Statistics.ID.6 Represent data on two quantitative variables on a scatter plot, and describe how the variables are related

 

Calculate expected values and use them to solve problems

CCMS Statistics.MD.1 Define a random variable for a quantity of interest by assigning a numerical value to each event in a sample space; graph the corresponding probability distribution using the same graphical displays as for data distributions

CCMS Statistics.MD.2 Calculate the expected value of a random variable; interpret it as the mean of the probability distribution

CCMS Statistics.MD.3 Develop a probability distribution for a random variable defined for a sample space in which theoretical probabilities can be calculated; find the expected value

CCMS Statistics.MD.4 Develop a probability distribution for a random variable defined for a sample space in which probabilities are assigned empirically; find the expected value

 

Use probability to evaluate outcomes of decisions

CCMS.Statistics.MD.5 Weigh the possible outcomes of a decision by assigning probabilities to payoff values and finding expected values.

CCMS.Statistics.MD.6 Use probabilities to make fair decisions

CCMS.Statistics.MD.7 Analyze decisions and strategies using probability concepts

9-12 Life Science Standards

 

CCSS LS1 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

CCSS LS1.A Structure and Function

CCSS LS1.B Growth and Development of Organisms

 

CCSS LS4:  Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

CCSS LS4.B Natural Selection

 

9-12 American Democracy Standards

CCSS AD 12.7 Students analyze and compare the powers and procedures of the national, state, tribal, and local governments.

CCSS AD 12.7.5 Explain how public policy is formed, incl. setting of public agenda and implementation of it through regulations and executive orders.

CCSS AD12.8 Students evaluate and take & defend positions on influence of media on American political life

CCSS AD12.8.2 Describe roles of broadcast, print, & electronic media, incl. Internet, as means of communication in American politics.

CCSS AD12.8.3 Explain how public officials use the media to communicate with the citizenry and to shape public opinion.

 

 

9-12 US History Standards

CCSS US11.8 Students analyze the economic boom & social transformation of post-World War II America

 

9-12 CC History/Social Science Standards

CCSS US11.8.7 Describe effects on society and the economy of technological developments since 1945, incl. the computer revolution, changes in communication, advances in medicine, and improvements in agricultural technology.

 

9-12 World History Standards

CCSS WH10.3 Students analyze the effects of the Industrial Revolution in England, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States.

CCSS WH10.3.5 Understand the connections among natural resources, entrepreneurship, labor, and capital in an industrial economy.

CCSS WH10.9 Students analyze the international developments in the post-World World War II world

CCSS WH10.11Students analyze the integration of countries into the world economy and the information, technological, and communications revolutions