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Appendix C: Executive Summary from *Being Fluent with Information Technology*
Appendix C: Executive Summary from *Being Fluent with Information Technology*
Pages 94-98
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Between those who search aggressively for opportunities to learn more about information technology and those who choose not to learn anything at all about information technology, there are many who recognize the potential value of information technology for their everyday lives and who realize that a better understanding of information technology will be helpful to them. This realization is based on several factors: • Information technology has entered our lives over a relatively brief period of time with little warning and essentially no formal educational preparation for most people.
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• Contemporary skills, the ability to use today's computer applica tions, enable people to apply information technology immediately. In the present labor market, skills are an essential component of job readiness.
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Concepts, capabilities, and skills -- the three different types of knowl edge of FITness -- occupy separate dimensions, implying that a particular activity involving information technology will involve elements of each type of knowledge. Learning the skills and concepts and developing the intellectual capabilities can be undertaken without reference to each other, but such an effort will not promote FITness to any significant degree.
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10. Think about information technology abstractly. Information Technology Concepts 1. Computers 2. Information systems 3. Networks 4. Digital representation of information 5. Information organization 6. Modeling and abstraction 7. Algorithmic thinking and programming 8. Universality 9. Limitations of information technology 10. Societal impact of information and information technology Information Technology Skills 1. Setting up a personal computer 2. Using basic operating system features 3. Using a word processor to create a text document 4. sing a graphics and/or an artwork package to create illustrations, slides, U or other image-based expressions of ideas 5. Connecting a computer to a network 6. Using the Internet to find information and resources 7. Using a computer to communicate with others 8. Using a spreadsheet to model simple processes or financial tables 9. Using a database system to set up and access useful information 10. sing instructional materials to learn how to use new applications or U f eatures
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In summary, FIT individuals, those who know a starter set of IT skills, who understand the basic concepts on which IT is founded, and who have engaged in the higher-level thinking embodied in the intellectual capabilities, should use information technology confidently, should come to work ready to learn new business systems quickly and use them effec tively, should be able to apply IT to personally relevant problems, and should be able to adapt to the inevitable change as IT evolves over their lifetime. To be FIT is to possess knowledge essential to using information technology now and in the future.
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