Standards

=**AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner** =
 * **1.1.8** **Demonstrate mastery of technology tools for accessing information and pursuing inquiry**
 * **1.2.3** **Demonstrate creativity by using multiple resources and formats**
 * **2.1.4** **Use technology and other information tools to analyze and organize information**
 * **2.3.1** **Connect understanding to the real world**
 * **2.4.3** **Recognize new knowledge and understanding**

=**National Educational Technology Standards for Students(NETS•S)** =
 * **2a. Student understand the ethical, cultural, and societal issues related to technology**
 * **3a. Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity**
 * **3b. Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works**
 * **4a. Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences**
 * **4b. Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences**

=Georgia Performance Standards = > a. Selects a focus, an organizational structure, and a point of view based on purpose,genre expectations, audience, length, and format requirements. > b. Writes texts of a length appropriate to address the topic or tell the story. > c. Uses traditional structures for conveying information (e.g., chronological order, cause and effect, similarity and difference, and posing and answering a question). > d. Uses appropriate structures to ensure coherence (e.g., transition elements). > e. Supports statements and claims with anecdotes, descriptions, facts and statistics, and specific examples.
 * **ELA7W1 The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and provides a satisfying closure. The student**

> b. Creates an organizing structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context. > > a. Identifies topics, asks and evaluates questions, and develops ideas leading to inquiry, investigation, and research. > b. Gives credit for both quoted and paraphrased information in a bibliography by using a consistent and sanctioned format and methodology for citations. > c. Includes researched information in different types of products (e.g., compositions, multimedia presentations, graphic organizers, projects, etc.). > d. Documents sources. > e. Uses electronic media to locate relevant information.
 * **ELA7W2 The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres. The student produces a narrative (fictional, personal, experiential) that:**
 * **ELA7W3 The student uses research and technology to support writing. The student**