Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities - Softcover

Snyder, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321357825 ISBN 13: 9780321357823

Publisher: Pearson, 2005

Synopsis

To meet the demands of today's world and to adapt to future technology advancements, individuals must use technology as a tool for organization, communication, research, and problem solving.  To help students become effective users of today's technology and place them on the path of lifelong learning.  Fluency covers three types of knowledge: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities.  Skills consists of competence with contemporary computer applications; Concepts are the fundamental principles upon which information technology is founded, including basics ideas relating to information, computers, databases, and networks; Capabilities is the ability to apply reasoning in complex situations, which allows students to master higher-level thinking in the context of information technology.  Larry Snyder covers this foundation of learning by integrating a project-oriented learning approach through examples and real-life problem solving.

 

Read what professionals, college students, and professors have to say about the importance of technology knowledge in a recent New York Times (nytimes.com) article, http://nytimes.com/2005/08/23/technology/23geeks.html?pagewanted=print.

Article: A Techie, Absolutely, and More

By: Steve Lohr

Date: August 23rd, 2005

Business Section

About this title

From the Back Cover

Technology continues to evolve as our primary tool for communication, organization, research, and problem solving. Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities, Third Edition equips readers who are already familiar with computers, applications, and the Internet with a deeper understanding of the broad capabilities of technology. This text helps readers form a foundation of knowledge they can adapt to their personal and career goals as future technologies emerge.

 

Professor Lawrence Snyder served as chairman of the National Research Council's report Being Fluent with Information Technology. His book implements the vision of that report, helping individuals become fluent with technology by covering three knowledge areas: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities.

• Skills: Technology immediately useful such as email, navigating the World Wide Web, spreadsheets, and word processing
• Concepts: Fundamentals of netowrks, how computers work, assessing the authenticity of information, digital representations, and information structuring
• Capabilities: Reasoning, problem solving, and trouble shooting

Highlights of the Third Edition:

• Updated coverage of the latest operating systems and their respective features including Windows Vista™, Ribbon, and Mac OS®X
• Revised database material including XML database representation and processing, revised national database coverage emphasizing query by example, and a new case study
• Increased coverage of Web navigation and searching
• Expanded coverage of online security, phishing (fraud), identity theft, and wireless security

It is easy to teach Fluency!

A complete supplements package is available with this book. Visit www.aw.com/snyder for more information

Computer Skills Workbook ISBN-13: 978-0-321-52255-9 ISBN-10:0-321-52255-9

 

For more information on the National Research Council report please visit www.nationalacademies.org/nrc

 

About the Author

Larry Snyder was the chairman of the National Research Council's (NRC) committee that issued the report, "Being Fluent with Information Technology." It is this NRC committee, funded by the National Science Foundation, that identified the three types of knowledge needed in Fluency. Larry received his BA in 1968 from the University of Iowa and his Ph.D. in 1973 at Carnegie Mellon. Since then he has taught at schools like Yale, MIT, Harvard, and Syndey University before settling down in 1983 at the University of Washington.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0321357825
• ISBN 13: 9780321357823
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 784