1 Technology in Action Chapter 1 Why Computers Matter to You: Becoming Computer Literate Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education‚ Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 2 Chapter Topics • Computer literacy • Computers and careers • Technology challenges Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education‚ Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 3 What is Computer Literacy ? – Understand basics of hardware and software – Know common terminology / acronyms – Know how to use a computer (have “hands-on” experience)
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E S S AY S E R I E S FALL 2010 The Future of Digital Communications: Technical Perspectives Edited by Fernando Laguarda Vice President‚ External Affairs and Policy Counselor Time Warner Cable www.twcresearchprogram.com For more information: Fernando Laguarda 901 F Street‚ NW Suite 800 Washington‚ DC 20004 Phone: (202) 370-4245 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ......................................................................................................................
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Dear Pen Pal‚ I am so glad to hear of your interest in the everyday enhancing technology. One of the most up-dated technical resources is the internet. There are many different perspectives of the internet and it can become very addictive. You must be able to realize the difference in truth and fiction. Tremendous amounts of information are dumped into cyberspace every day without anyone being responsible for organizing it in a user-friendly fashion. It’s not always easy to find specific information
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IB ITGS – 11 4.27.2010 Digital Communication in the 21st century Digital communication can be defined as an electronic transmission of information that has been encoded digitally. This specifically means that digital communication is data communication of information that is converted from text to code digitally. Digital communication can also be effective communication dealing with web‚ multimedia‚ video or graphics‚ and digital media. Some forms of digital communication can be texting
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In “Literacy and the digital knowledge revolution” (2006)‚ Claire Belisle refers to “digital knowledge”‚ as a way that knowledge can be “processed and transformed”‚ by the various technological tools‚ i.e. search engines‚ databases‚ sorters and linguistic analysts‚ that we have available (Belisle‚ 2006‚ p57). Belisle moves in to the revouloution Literacy- believes that literacy is the basis of knowledge acquisition and‚ with the stronger interaction between humans and technology and the way we
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Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants Digital natives and immigrants are the one that move technology innovation around. What is digital native or immigrant? Marc Prensky tells us that our students today are all ‘“native speakers” of the digital language of computers‚ video games and the Internet” (Prensky‚ 2001). Digital Natives are young people that were born in the late 1990’s. Marc prenskey defines digital immigrants “were not born into the digital world but have‚ at some later point in
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Digital Natives‚ Digital Immigrants: Some Thoughts from the Generation Gap by Timothy VanSlyke | | | | | | | | | In a two-part series entitled "Digital Immigrants‚ Digital Natives‚" Marc Prensky (2001a‚ 2001b) employs an analogy of native speakers and immigrants to describe the generation gap separating today’s students (the "Digital Natives") from their teachers (the "Digital Immigrants"). According to Prensky‚ the former are surrounded by digital media to such an extent
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Digital Natives‚ Digital Immigrants Summary In his article‚ Marc Prensky states that the students in our classrooms are much more different than the people who are in front of the classroom teaching in terms of how they learn and the ways in which they are able to take in information. He gave the two different groups of people different titles; digital immigrants‚ and digital natives. Immigrants being those people who were not born in a time when technology was not readily available to use at all
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Marc Prensky Digital Natives Digital Immigrants ©2001 Marc Prensky _____________________________________________________________________________ Digital Natives‚ Digital Immigrants By Marc Prensky From On the Horizon (NCB University Press‚ Vol. 9 No. 5‚ October 2001) © 2001 Marc Prensky It is amazing to me how in all the hoopla and debate these days about the decline of education in the US we ignore the most fundamental of its causes. Our students have changed radically. Today’s students
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DI Vs. DN Today’s children process the world in a new way. They are surrounded by technology. For example‚ a family sits for dinner. In the past the family members would communicate with one another. In today’s digital age‚ the family members are more likely communicate with the outside world through their personal devices than with one another. Moreover‚ a child has a world inside his computer and iPhone. He can express himself and investigate the world under his own terms. The world is changing
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