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Title: Computer Literacy


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Computer Literacy
  • What will this mean in 2005?
  • Helen Wolfe, Professor of CIS, Post University

2
What do we mean by computer literacy?
  • If you are computer literate are you fluent?
  • If you are fluent are you literate?

3
Both information literacy and FIT are essential
to use information technology effectively
  • Literacy and FITness are interrelated but
    distinct
  • Computer Science and Telecommunication Board,
    1999
  • National Research Council

4
According to the National Research Council
  • Being Fluent with Information Technology
  • Encompasses
  • Intellectual Capabilities
  • Information Technology Concepts
  • Information Technology Skills

5
Information literacy focusA set of intellectual
capabilities, conceptual knowledge, and
contemporary skills associated with information
technology
  • Deals with content and communication finding,
    organizing and analyzing information -research,
    assessment and evaluation
  • Takes the form of text images, video,
    simulations, multimedia, interactivity
  • Purpose art, news, entertainment, education,
    research, business, commerce, politics

6
The National Academy of EngineeringTechnically
Speaking, 2002
  • The technology literate citizen
  • Has knowledge everyday pervasiveness, use,
    tradeoffs between costs and benefits
  • Understands benefits and risks, seeks information
    about new technologies, participates in (ways of
    thinking and acting)
  • Can apply capabilities

7
Intellectual Capabilities
  • Able to apply productively to work and everyday
    lives in complex situations understanding
    consequences
  • Understands when IT assists or impedes
  • Adapts to changes and advancements
  • Involves communications, information processing,
    and problem solving

8
Referencing the Computer Science and
Telecommunications Board
  • One who is fluent with technology (FIT)
  • Engages in sustained reasoning defines,
    clarifies, revises, tests etc. using programs,
    design tools, visualization and modeling
    environments, web resources
  • Manages complexity involving a number of tasks as
    problem clarification, solution formulation,
    design, implementation,, testing, evaluating the
    outcome
  • Plans, designs, integrates, responds to the
    unexpected, diagnoses (debugs)
  • Manages resources memory, storage, bandwidth,
    time effective benchmarks
  • Understands the linkages and interdependencies
    word size, modem speed, dedicated lines, cable or
    DSL connections


9
Intellectual capabilities for FIT
continuedTesting a solution
  • Understands design meets user needs.
  • Tests a solution
  • Comprehends the connections between iterative
    design, testing, implementation
  • Organizes and navigates information structures
    and evaluates information

10
FITness
  • Manage faulty solutions
  • Ability to find and evaluate information
  • Reading a manual
  • Using online help
  • Applying Boolean logic
  • Evaluating sources and information- valid,
    relevant, timely, complete, accurate. appropriate

11
  • Collaborate work in groups to complete a
    complex project
  • Communicate at appropriate levels
  • Convey proper information to right audiences
    experts, novices, providing documentation

12
FITness
  • Expect the unexpected understanding the whole
    picture, additional needs, changes, add-ons,
    budgetary changes
  • Anticipate changing technologies
  • Think about IT abstractly related to culture,
    policies, embedded procedures, hierarchy, power
    structure
  • Becoming independent lifelong learners so can
    adapt to new technologies
  • Becoming adept at applying technology to
    personally relevant tasks

13
Conceptual Foundations of IT Contributing to FIT
  • The programming sequence programming
    fundamentals/structures , algorithmic thinking
  • Basics of Information systems hardware,
    software, people, processes, networks,
    data/information, interfaces, storage, security,
    privacy
  • Digital representation
  • Information organization forms, structure
  • Databases, Boolean logic and search engines

14
FIT Technology Skills
  • Connecting the parts of a PC and its major
    peripherals learning about cables, ports
  • Using basic operating system features
  • Using a word processor to create a text document
  • Using software for graphics, art work,
    illustrations presentation software
  • Connecting to a network
  • Using the Internet to find information
    browsers, search engines, how to query and
    evaluate results

15
FIT technology skills continued
  • Using a computer to communicate with others
  • Using a spreadsheet to model
  • Using a database system to set up and access
    useful information
  • Using instructional materials - manuals and
    online help for features and new applications.

16
Is the distinction between fluency and
literacy real or a problem for virtual
reality?What else? Privacy and Data
Mining?Photographic truth? Issues for informed
citizens?As educators what is our mission?
17
Upon successful completionof a course in
computer literacy
  • What should a student be able to do?

18
Competencies to be Learned?
  • Upon successful completion, the student will be
    able to
  • Define computer and its role in converting data
    into information
  • Describe computer categories and their roles
  • Identify input, processing, storage, output
    hardware and peripherals
  • Explain the difference between system and
    application software
  • - Identify interface elements prompts, menus,
    graphical objects, commands
  • - Use documentation resources manuals,
    tutorials, and online help
  • - Understand the computer market by analyzing
    computer advertisements for price, technical
    specifications, and performance

19
More competencies
  • Define computer compatibility
  • Select the best application software for a task
  • Understand physical and logical storage
  • Format a disk Why?
  • Create valid file and folder names
  • Understand architecture ROM, RAM, virtual
    memory, cache, CMOS, factors effecting CPU
    performance, expansion boards, busses
    transporting bits and bytes. Word size
  • Apply telecommunication technology for research
    and communicating email, FTP, Telnet, search
    engines, Boolean Logic

20
Activities Supporting Outcomes
  • Tutorials
  • Cases
  • Projects
  • Write an essay using Boolean logic to find
    sources online and format, edit, insert a
    picture
  • Design a computer configuration using online
    sites such as Dell or Gateway and create a
    spreadsheet to compare bundled systems

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Activities
  • Create a spreadsheet for data presentation,
    decision support, and graphing e.g. a budget
  • Create a Power Point presentation
  • Create an effective web page for web publication
  • Create a chart using Paint
  • Identify issues relating to computer crime,
    security, and privacy and present findings in a
    table
  • Discuss ethical computer use

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More Activities
  • Create a slide show about a hobby or special
    interest
  • Design a sign for a local event using the Paint
    accessory
  • Any more suggestions?
  • Lets divide into groups and discuss revising
    outcomes and suggest additional activities to
    support accomplishing these.
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