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Supporting Skills
The Supporting Skills are ICT skills that support student demonstration of the continuum descriptors. They are listed on the Supporting Skills chart on the reverse side of the continuum poster. The code numbers of the supporting skills are referenced on the continuum beneath each specific descriptor in the Cognitive Domain that requires specific supporting skills.
The Supporting Skills are divided into four categories:
- Access and Communication Skills, such as transferring and saving data within and between applications using toolbar icons, menu options, hyperlinks, and/or keyboard shortcuts
- Input/Output Skills, such as capturing and manipulating data using digital audio recording devices, cameras, video recorders, microscopes, geographical positioning systems, and/or probeware
- Tools and Text Skills, such as editing and formatting data using spell-check, dictionary, thesaurus, grammar-check, and/or track changes
- Vocabulary Skills, such as recalling and using ICT vocabulary in context
Students should acquire and apply supporting skills in context, based on their need for that skill to accomplish a specific learning task. The supporting skills are intended to connect with checklists of skills outlined by school divisions based on their existing infrastructure and on the access their students have to specific hardware and software configurations.
For an explanation on how to read the codes on the continuum poster, see Guide to Reading the Continuum.
