1. Skills: none Concepts: evolution (generations) of platforms for developing and delivering IT applications, changes in the IT literacy course as platforms changed, our current Internet-era IT literacy curriculum This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. The evolution of IT platforms and digital literacy

2. Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Internet skills – Application development – Content creation – User skills

3. The pioneers What skills and concepts are needed for success as a student and after graduation as a professional and a citizen? John Kemeny Thomas Kurtz

4. Which skills and concepts to include? ? The answer changes over time because IT platforms change What is my answer (for now) I’d like to hear your answers.

5. Pre-history: “computers” in the 1940s

6. ENIAC, 1946 UNIVAC, 1951 1 st Generation: batch processing ENIAC/UNIVAC videoENIAC/UNIVAC video (7:14) UNIVAC video UNIVAC video (17:31) Can you think of applications in which data is still processed in batches today?

7. 2 nd Generation: timesharing Can you think of applications that still use a time-shared central computer today?

8. Dartmouth computer lab, mid 1960s

9. Time sharing era digital literacy Concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Skills – Simple programming – Algorithmic thinking

10. Altair, January 1975 3 rd Generation: personal computing

11. Electric Pencil and Microsoft BASIC, 1975 Do you recognize the two young men on the left?

12. Visicalc, 1979

13. PC era digital literacy Concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Skills – Simple programming – Algorithmic thinking – Word processing – Spreadsheets

14. PCs with graphical user interfaces

15. GUI era digital literacy Concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Skills – Word – Excel – PowerPoint – Access

16. NSFNet, July 1986-8, 56 kbps 4 th Generation: the Internet

18. Internet era digital literacy Concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Skills – Application development – Content creation – User skills

19. Summary What skills and concepts are needed for success as a student and after graduation as a professional and a citizen? John Kemeny Thomas Kurtz

20. Self-study questions Without looking back, can you identify the four changing IT platforms we reviewed? What are the three skill areas included in the Internet era digital literacy curriculum? Give an example of each. What are the conceptual areas included in the Internet era digital literacy curriculum? Give an example of each. Do you recall the categories of skills and concepts covered in our current digital literacy course? Mobile devices and applications are becoming important. How might that trend effect the digital literacy curriculum?

21. Resources John G. kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, “The Dartmouth Time-Sharing Computing System,” Final Report to the NSF), June 1967. http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED024602.pdf Kemeny, John G., and Kurtz, T. E., "Dartmouth Time Sharing, “Science, Vol 162, No 3850, October 11, 1968, pp 223-228. http://dtss.dartmouth.edu/sciencearticle/http://dtss.dartmouth.edu/sciencearticle/ or text versiontext version Historical site on the Dartmouth Time Sharing System project: http://dtss.dartmouth.edu/history.php A longer description of the content of our course: http://cis275topics.blogspot.com/2010/07/course-overview.html Blog on the process leading up to this course: http://computerliteracy3.blogspot.com/ A short paper on the evolution and content of the digital literacy course: http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/presentations/DLpaper.docx http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/presentations/DLpaper.docx Podcast and documentary movie on the women who moved from “computing” by hand to programming the ENIAC. http://cis471.blogspot.com/2014/09/recommended- podcast-women-who.htmlhttp://cis471.blogspot.com/2014/09/recommended- podcast-women-who.html