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/
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