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

Snyder, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201754916 ISBN 13: 9780201754919

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2003

Synopsis

Technology has evolved into society's primary tool for organization, communication, research, and problem solving. It is essential that everyone learn the fundamental skills that can be applied towards being an effective user of today's technology as well as a lifelong learner of future technology. Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities provides the framework for developing confident users who can both adapt to changes and solve problems as technology evolves.

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: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0201754916
• ISBN 13: 9780201754919
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 512