Syllabus – what will we cover?

IT skills: noneIT concepts: computing eras, evolution of our course, the current contents of our course

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Digital literacy in the Internet era

Which era does each image depict?

Three previous eras

Which era does each image depict?

Batch processing Time sharing Personal computer

Internet

The first ever digital literacy course

Thomas KurtzJohn Kemeny

The first student computer lab

We will cover skills and concepts needed for success as a student and after graduation as a professional and a citizen.

What will we cover?

Applications

Implications

Technology

Internet concepts

Give two examples of applications before continuing.

Watch the video (6 minutes)

What are the implications of this application for individuals, organizations and society?

A sample Internet application -- education

We will cover the skills and concepts needed for success as a student and after graduation as a professional and a citizen.

Have we been talking about skills or concepts up to this point?

What will we cover?

Skill areas

Application development

User skills

Content creation

• Internet concepts– Applications– Implications– Technology

• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation– User skills

Summary

Self-study questions

1. Peter Norvig taught a course at Stanford, but he is a part time teacher. What is his full-time job?

2. How many students enrolled in Norvig’s MOOC on artificial intelligence? How many students enrolled?

3. Why does Norvig think that a student’s peers make better tutors than professors?

4. Peter Norvig is co-author of a textbook, what is it’s title?5. What might be the implications of MOOCs for the California

State University system?6. Our class will cover information technology ___ and ___.7. We will cover three general types of skill ___, ___ and ___.8. The two professors who offered the first digital literacy

course in the early 1960s were ___ and ___.

Resources

• Peter Norvig, The 100,000-student classroom. This is a six-minute TED talk describing the MOOC Norvig and a colleague taught at Stanford along with some of the principles that guided the course design.

• Posts on our class blog regarding MOOCs: http://cis471.blogspot.com/search/label/mooc

• Transcript of talk by Peter Norvig: http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/presentations/norvig.docx

• History of the Dartmouth time sharing system: http://dtss.dartmouth.edu/index.php

• Kemeney and Kurtz article on their course and time sharing system: http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/presentations/kemeneykurtzscience.htm

• A longer description of the content of our course: http://cis275topics.blogspot.com/2010/07/course-overview.htm

• A short paper on the evolution and content of the digital literacy course: http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/presentations/DLpaper.docx