According to No Child Left Behind (NCLB), we must ensure that every student is technologically literate by the time they graduate from eighth grade.

The NMUSD Student Technology Skills Program is supported by a systematic and comprehensive program of instruction, assessment and intervention. Instruction and intervention are integrated into the curriculum using Learning.com's EasyTech curriculum. All 6th grade students take the Learning.com's TechLiteracy Assessment (TLA).

Once a student passes TLA, the student has met the graduation requirement. If a student does not pass the assessment, the student receives intervention and opportunities to retake the assessment in order to pass by the end of 8th grade.

 

The ongoing information explosion of the 21st century requires that students become skillful consumers and producers of information to achieve personal and professional success. Information literacy skills enable students to find and use information responsibly, efficiently and effectively. To become lifelong learners, students must learn to access and evaluate information sources in a variety of formats, both print and electronic, and use the acquired knowledge in an ethical manner to accomplish a specific purpose.

The District uses EasyTech, which provides interactive online instruction in technology including information literacy skills and knowledge, and allows educators to track student progress. To continue the development of these skills further, The District secondary librarians have developed an information literacy curriculum, which allows teachers, librarians, and library media clerks to present information literacy skills in an organized and sequential manner. The Big6™ problem-solving process is emphasized at all grade levels and content area curriculum committees will develop projects for integrating information literacy skills across the curriculum.