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Cyberfluency in the 21st Century: Vive le Cyberspace Tom Kelliher, Jill Zimmerman, and Sandra Webster Goucher and Westminster Colleges
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Introduction §How do we prepare our students for the 21st century? l New ways of communicating l Pitfalls of the cyber world
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Introduction §Two similar (yet different) cyberfluency courses l Computing and Society at Goucher College l Psychology of the Internet at Westminster College
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Cyberfluency §Defined: l Working with computers l Networking l Society §Cyberfluency vs. computer literacy
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Computing and Society §Skills survey l Survey Survey §Search engines l Search Search l Search lab Search lab §Evaluating information on the web l Evaluate Evaluate
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Computing and Society §Bulletin board §Web page design §Societal issues l Case studies and position papers Case studies and position papers §Student ProjectsStudent Projects
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Psychology of the Internet §What’s a cluster course?What’s a cluster course? §This cluster courseThis cluster course §Course goalsCourse goals
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Psychology of the Internet §SyllabusSyllabus §SurprisesSurprises
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Psychology of the Internet §Group projects:Group projects l Multi-disciplinary teams l Small group psychology §Events l Configuring a computer l Heavens’s Gate l Experiences of a web master l Final exam Final exam
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Conclusion §The dawn of a new era §Tools --- computing and networking §The next step?
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Contacting us §Tom Kelliher l http://phoenix.goucher.edu/~kelliher/ http://phoenix.goucher.edu/~kelliher/ §Jill Zimmerman l http://phoenix.goucher.edu/~jillz/ http://phoenix.goucher.edu/~jillz/ §Sandra Webster l http://www.psych.westminster.edu/skw/ http://www.psych.westminster.edu/skw/
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