Telangana ICT syllabus year 1

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Proposed syllabus content for the first year

Data processing and representation

Learning Objectives

1. Reading, analysing data in different formats; reading graphs and pictures (eg., vegetation diversity charts, map of forest cover, photo essay as a sequence, only audio, only video)
2. Understanding what data to collect to answer a proposed question, identifying data elements (can come from the previous description of data in various formats)
3. Organizing given data sets and analyzing and representing data as graphs
4. Working with spreadsheets to enter data, analyse and represent using graphs
5. Querying data sets to get answers to questions (sort,count)
6. Text entry (Indian languages) and processing
7. Using mind maps to represent an idea with relationships, explore linkages

Graphics

Learning Objectives

1. Capturing/ creating Images to tell a story (use of a camera and downloading from camera to be learned incidentally)
2. Editing existing images to combine with text
3. Working with layered image editing tools

Audio visual communication

Learning Objectives

1. Audio story telling
2. Combining recorded sounds, sound effects to add to audio narration
3. Combining visuals to add to audio narration

Overall mapping of Year 1 syllabus

Year	Strand of digital literacy	Levels of competency	Duration	Project Ideas	Subject integration
Year 1	Data representation and processing	Basic Reading, analysing data in different formats; reading graphs and pictures (eg., vegetation diversity charts, map of forest cover, photo essay as a sequence, only audio, only video) Understanding what data to collect to answer a proposed question, identifying data elements (can come from the previous description of data in various formats) Organizing given data sets and analyzing and representing data as graphs Working with spreadsheets to enter data, analyse and represent using graphs Querying data sets to get answers to questions (sort,count) Text entry (Indian languages) and processing Using mind maps to represent an idea with relationships, explore linkages	10 weeks Data - 1 week Spreadsheet - 2 weeks Text editing and text processing - 2 weeks Concept Mapping - 2 weeks Project completion - 3 weeks Applications covered Spreadsheet Text editor Image viewing software Concept mapping application	Projects Some can be individual projects; some group projects Creation/ representation of an idea using multiple data formats - graphs, photos, numbers, text, audio, video, Make an infographic) Tabulate pre-existing data sets and make meaning / inferences from numeric data and represent as graphs - Data collection locally - heights of students and ages, income of parents, secondary data (like temperature, rainfall, etc) and graph; with simple analysis Making a report on age-wise height variation, income distibution in class, caste-breakup, regional distribution Thematic explorations for science (water, land use, forests, force) using concept maps	Mathematics History/ Social Science Science	Teacher Notes Teacher must have knowledge of spreadsheet and data analysis Introduction to TPACK Teacher must be introduced to basics of graphics
Year 1	Graphics	Basic Capturing/ creating Images to tell a story (use of a camera and downloading from camera to be learned incidentally) Editing existing images to combine with text Working with layered image editing tools	5 weeks Image capture for given ideas Creating in class using digital art tools Collaborative story making using created pictures Simple image editing (resizing, colour, hue, saturation) Applications covered Image viewing software Digital Art tools Image editing software	Projects Photo essay of processes- election, flowering plants (not possible to do in a given year - must use secondary data) Picture stories Comic books (with pictures and minimal text)	History/ Social Science Science Languages	Evaluation using picture essays Image editing and slideshow using images List of chapter based ideas
Year 1	Programming environments and applications	Basic Demonstration of computing environments where instructions generate outcomes – Geogebra, STEP, Turtle Art Identifying computing needs in any given process and documenting process Working in a logo based programming environment Using Geogebra to create sketches and puzzles	10 weeks Flowcharting tools to document processes - 2 weeks Working with Turtle logo - 4 weeks Play with Geogebra to learn to make puzzles, tangram shapes Applications covered Flowcharting tools Turtle Art Geogebra	Projects Mapping processes and identifying requirements and outcomes – school science day, sports day, etc – need for definitions, conditional processes, repetition, computation and outcome Writing code for given Turtle constructions Create Geogebra sketches for geometric concepts (determined by maths teachers)	Mathematics Languages	Introduction to shapes in maths
Year 1	Audio visual communication	Basic Audio story telling Combining recorded sounds, sound effects to add to audio narration Combining visuals to add to audio narration	5 weeks Applications covered Audio-video players Audio editing software Screencast recorder, video editing software	Projects Narrate an event or a story – oral description; skill of building a narrative. Record the narration using multiple devices. Create audio files of music, activities in class by students and sounds around the school; creating image files from photographs, drawings, scanned images, maps, etc	History/ Social Science Languages	Communication using digital stories Evaluating digital stories
Year 2	Data representation and processing	Intermediate Querying data sets to get answers to questions, conditional representation Data analysis using spreadheets (filters, pivots, percentiles Spreadsheet is not an output format Different forms of data visualizations Creating a communication output combining text, graphs, images in a text document - formatting, organizing, multi-page, multi-section, references, footnotes	10 weeks Spreadsheet - 3 weeks Text processing - 3 weeks Project completion - 3 weeks	Projects Vegetation mapping of the neighbourhood and making a multi-page documents with pictures, graphs, data and analysis (includes text, numeric data, images, graphs). Similar projects to be conceptualized Documentation of neighbourhood institutions (audio-visual narrative combined with text)	Mathematics History/ Social Science Science Languages
Year 2	Audio visual communication	Intermediate	5 weeks	Projects	History/ Social Science Science Languages