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Appendix B Achieving Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Fluency: Is Nothing New Under the Sun?--Paul Horwitz
Appendix B Achieving Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Fluency: Is Nothing New Under the Sun?--Paul Horwitz
Pages 73-76
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And reading, it is becoming clear, in contrast to other useful skills like blacksmithing or shoemaking, cannot be learned by apprenticeship -- it requires a special kind of place called a "school." So formal education is becoming a requirement for a growing middle class.1 Will the computer have the same kind of far-reaching effect on education that the printing press had 500 years ago? Are there things that students today need to know that they don't learn in the traditional school environment?
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The plethora of unfiltered information available on the Web also places increased emphasis on students' ability to evaluate that information, to identify disinformation and propaganda, and to check sources for consistency and coherence. In one of the more useful neologisms of this age of the search engine, our students need to learn how to Google.
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Although this action is entirely voluntary, and notwithstanding the posting of explicit privacy policies by the Websites, students are often unaware of the potentially damaging consequences of posting personal information on the Web where it may remain accessible for a very long time. ICT fluency should include awareness of the potential dangers of the misuse of databases.
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that people -- youngsters and adults alike -- have a tendency to trust computers much too much and then to be unduly critical when a technological model leads them astray. A weather model is not, and never can be, 100 percent accurate; yet weather predictions based on computer models are more reliable than horoscopes (which may well be generated by computers, for all I know)
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