Cyberfluency in the 21st Century: Vive le Cyberspace

Cyberfluency in the 21st Century: Vive le Cyberspace

Tom Kelliher, Jill Zimmerman, and Sandra Webster

Goucher and Westminster Colleges

Introduction

How do we prepare our students for the 21st century? New ways of communicating Pitfalls of the cyber world

Introduction

Two similar (yet different) cyberfluency courses Computing and Society at Goucher College Psychology of the Internet at Westminster

College

Cyberfluency

Defined: Working with computers Networking Society

Cyberfluency vs. computer literacy

Computing and Society

Skills survey Survey

Search engines Search Search lab

Evaluating information on the web Evaluate

Computing and Society

Bulletin boardWeb page designSocietal issues

Case studies and position papers

Student Projects

Psychology of the Internet

What’s a cluster course?This cluster courseCourse goals

Psychology of the Internet

SyllabusSurprises

Psychology of the Internet

Group projects: Multi-disciplinary teams Small group psychology

Events Configuring a computer Heavens’s Gate Experiences of a web master Final exam

Conclusion

The dawn of a new eraTools --- computing and networkingThe next step?

Contacting us

Tom Kelliher http://phoenix.goucher.edu/~kelliher/

Jill Zimmerman http://phoenix.goucher.edu/~jillz/

Sandra Webster http://www.psych.westminster.edu/skw/