Information and Communication Technology

Week 4

Agenda

Check – In / QuestionsOverarching questionsLecture – Feel free to interrupt!

Give me “wows and wonders”Before we leave tonight…

Give me your questions for UW librarians

Overarching Questions

How do you see technology as a tool in defining, teaching, and practicing information literacy?

When is technology a hindrance to information literacy and when is it a help?

Lecture agenda - why is technology key?

Attributes of an Agricultural, Industrial and Information age.

Notion of access to technology for all

The implications of open access

Technologies transforming the way we use information

What Age are We In?

Attribute Agricultural Industrial Information

Wealth Land Capital Knowledge

Time Sun Factory Whistle Time Zone

Workplace Farm Capital equipment Network

Tools Plough Machines Computers

Problem Solving

Self Delegation Integration

Knowledge Generalized Specialized around professions

Interdisciplinary

Learning Self taught Classrooms Online

Based on the work of Barbara Endicott Poposky 2007

Mindset 1: Physical-Industrial

The world basically operates on physical/material and industrial principles and logics. The world is “centered” and hierarchical.

Value is a function of scarcity Production is based on an “industrial” model

Products are material artifacts and commodities Production is based on infrastructure and production units and centers Tools are mainly production tools

The individual person is the unit of production, competence, intelligence

Expertise and authority are “located” in individuals and institutions

Space is enclosed and purpose specific Social relations of “bookspace” prevail; a stable “textual order”

Knobel and Lankshear, 2007, A New Literacies Sampler

Mindset 2: Cyberspatial-Postindustrial

The world increasingly operates on non-material (e.g., cyberspatial) and post-industrial principles and logics. The world is “decentered” and “flat.”

Value is a function of dispersion A “post-industrial” view of production

Products as enabling services A focus on leverage and non-finite participation Tools are increasingly tools of mediation and relationship technologies

The focus is increasingly on “collectives” as the unit of production, competence, intelligence

Expertise and authority are distributed and collective; hybrid experts

Space is open, continuous and fluid Social relations of emerging “digital media space” are

increasingly visible; texts in change

Knobel and Lankshear, 2007, A New Literacies Sampler

Implications

Watch trendsLifelong learningAny technology lecture dinosaurBoundaries challengedJobs changing rapidly Keep skills marketableVideo: Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

Access for All

Brewster Kahle, The Internet Librarian, 2007 Laserow lecture

Universal access to all human knowledgeDigitizing all human knowledge “Grateful Dead” Access copyright and securityScanning every book in the worldArchives: librarians are leading this

movement

Trends

Impact is that the technology is getting smaller and cheaper: storage less of an issue

Social networking Collocation of information Anonymity of the internet

Social Impact Privacy Crime

E-commerce: roles relationships and expectations Surveillance and defense: 70% world’s knowledge

now on computers

Education and Daily Life

Change at an accelerated paceLife long learnerTaking advantage of the new

technology: “pack and go”Technology integrated to the learning

not an add onVideo: Mobile Technology: 2012

Therefore . . .

What does everyone need to know about information and communication technology?

Computer Literacy versus Fluency in Information TechnologyFIT

SkillsConceptsCapabilities

FIT: Skills

Gain contemporary and immediately applicable skills. Become technically literate.

Browse the Web with Internet Explorer, Safari, or Firefox Create and publish Web pages Transfer files with FTP Effectively use search engines Determine authenticity of Web sites Program with JavaScript Build a spreadsheet with Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice

Spreadsheets Design a database with Microsoft Access Understand database and online privacy issues Protect your computer from security threats

FIT: Concepts

Reach an essential understanding of the foundations on which IT is built—surpassing technical literacy.

Computers Information systems Networks Modeling and abstraction Algorithmic thinking Digital representations, such as MP3, ASCII, and JPG Limitations and societal impacts of IT

FIT: Capabilities

Learn to apply IT in complex situations and understand the consequences. Surpass the conceptual level of IT understanding—achieving fluency.

Manage complexityTest solutionsAnticipate changes in technology Think about IT abstractly

Food for Thought

How do we help people be able to keep up as technology evolves?

What is the role of confidence? Being a techie versus a non-techie – arbitrary? When should someone know these things? Where should we learn these things? How does this knowledge effect future

education? What is overlap and distinctions between info

lit and FIT?

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