Summary of Pre-K Technology Applications TEKS

The Pre-K TEKS establishes a simple foundation for which our children are to learn and grow. Future TEKS will grow and develop from these simple TEKS that are developed for our Pre-K students. We begin with a scaffolding curriculum with the teacher introducing the different technology skills to their students. Most students might be unaware of the tasks being addressed by their teachers. Some of the simple tasks that we wish for our Pre-K students to address are listening and interacting to electronic storybooks, moving and double-clicking the mouse to interact with software, inserting and playing a CD to listen to the music, and writing and drawing using software.
A spiraling curriculum is a curriculum that builds on prior knowledge. Our district and the state aids in the building of a spiraling curriculum in order to meet the TEKS at specific grade levels. I have a 10-year-old daughter who is displaying some expertise in technology. She easily gets on the computer and creates documents. She is also able to download appropriate material and music. She likes to use clip art and create many different pictures. My 5 -year-old son is starting to show signs of some technology literacy. I am amazed with their level of technology literacy.
As I looked over the 3rd - 5th grade Technology TEKS, I noticed some similarities with the 6th - 8th grade TEKS. At both levels they are to us technology terminology that is appropriate to task and demonstrate acceptable use of the computer. Both grade level TEKS share in the use of acquiring information using Boolean search engines. There were also multiple opportunities shared in the Solving Problems and Communication areas to master knowledge and skills on both set of TEKS. I feel that it is wonderful that we reinforce material over periods of time. We must continuously to instruct our students on new material while still requiring to utilize their previous knowledge.