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Computer Literacy
What will this mean in 2005?
Helen Wolfe, Professor of CIS, Post University
What do we mean by computer
literacy?
• If you are computer
literate are you
fluent?
• If you are fluent are
you literate?
“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
According to the National Research
Council
• Being Fluent with Information Technology
Encompasses
Intellectual Capabilities
Information Technology Concepts
Information Technology Skills
Information literacy focus
A 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
The National Academy of Engineering
Technically 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
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
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
Intellectual capabilities for FIT continued
Testing 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
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
• Collaborate – work in groups to complete
a complex project
• Communicate at appropriate levels
– Convey proper information to right audiences
– experts, novices, providing documentation
FITness
• Expect the unexpected – understanding the
whole picture, additional needs, changes, addons, 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
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
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
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.
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?
Upon successful completion
of a course in computer
literacy
What should a
student be able to
do?
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
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
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
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
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?
• Let’s divide into groups and discuss
revising outcomes and suggest additional
activities to support accomplishing these.
What will this mean in 2005?
Helen Wolfe, Professor of CIS, Post University
What do we mean by computer
literacy?
• If you are computer
literate are you
fluent?
• If you are fluent are
you literate?
“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
According to the National Research
Council
• Being Fluent with Information Technology
Encompasses
Intellectual Capabilities
Information Technology Concepts
Information Technology Skills
Information literacy focus
A 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
The National Academy of Engineering
Technically 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
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
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
Intellectual capabilities for FIT continued
Testing 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
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
• Collaborate – work in groups to complete
a complex project
• Communicate at appropriate levels
– Convey proper information to right audiences
– experts, novices, providing documentation
FITness
• Expect the unexpected – understanding the
whole picture, additional needs, changes, addons, 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
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
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
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.
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?
Upon successful completion
of a course in computer
literacy
What should a
student be able to
do?
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
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
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
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
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?
• Let’s divide into groups and discuss
revising outcomes and suggest additional
activities to support accomplishing these.