Detail Skills

★ Participate effectively in civic life through knowing how to stay informed and understanding governmental processes.

★ Exercise the rights and obligations of citizenship at local, state, national, and global levels.

★ Understand the local and global implications of civic decisions.

★ Obtain, interpret, and understand basic health information and services and use such information and services in ways that enhance health.

★ Understand preventive physical and mental health measures, including proper diet, nutrition, exercise, risk avoidance, and stress reduction.

★ Use available information to make appropriate health-related decisions.

★ Establish and monitor personal and family health goals.

★ Understand national and international public health and safety issues.

★ Use 21st century skills to understand and address global issues.

★ Learn from and work collaboratively with individuals representing diverse cultures, religions, and lifestyles in a spirit of mutual respect and open dialogue in personal, work, and community contexts.

★ Understand other nations and cultures, including the use of non-English languages.

★ Demonstrate ecological knowledge and understanding of how natural systems work, as well as knowledge and understanding of how natural systems interface with social systems.

★ Demonstrate understanding of the relationship between beliefs, political systems, and environmental values of various cultures.

★ Demonstrate understanding of environmental issues caused as the result of human interaction with the environment, and knowledge related to alternative solutions to issues.

★ Demonstrate active and considered participation aimed at solving problems and resolving issues.

★ Demonstrate the ability to make appropriate personal economic choices.

★ Understand the role of the economy in society.

★ Apply entrepreneurial skills to enhance workplace productivity and career options.

★ Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate, and communicate information.

★ Use digital technologies (e.g., computers, PDAs, media players, GPS, etc.), communication/networking tools, and social networks appropriately to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, and create information to successfully function in a knowledge economy.

★ Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information technologies.

Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of media.

★ Understand and utilize the most appropriate media creation tools, characteristics, and conventions.

★ Understand and effectively utilize the most appropriate expressions and interpretations in diverse, multi-cultural environments.

Demonstrate the ability to use language to read, write, listen, and speak.

★ Access information efficiently (time) and effectively (sources)

★ Evaluate information critically and competently

Use information accurately and creatively for the issue or problem at hand.

Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information.

Understand both how and why media messages are constructed and for what purposes.

Examine how individuals interpret messages differently, how values and points of view are included or excluded, and how media can influence beliefs and behaviors.

Manage the flow of information from a wide variety of sources.