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Cyberfluency in the 21st Century: Vive le Cyberspace

Cyberfluency in the 21st Century: Vive le Cyberspace. Tom Kelliher, Jill Zimmerman, and Sandra Webster Goucher and Westminster Colleges. Introduction. How do we prepare our students for the 21st century? New ways of communicating Pitfalls of the cyber world. Introduction.

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Cyberfluency in the 21st Century: Vive le Cyberspace

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  1. Cyberfluency in the 21st Century: Vive le Cyberspace Tom Kelliher, Jill Zimmerman, and Sandra Webster Goucher and Westminster Colleges

  2. Introduction • How do we prepare our students for the 21st century? • New ways of communicating • Pitfalls of the cyber world

  3. Introduction • Two similar (yet different) cyberfluency courses • Computing and Society at Goucher College • Psychology of the Internet at Westminster College

  4. Cyberfluency • Defined: • Working with computers • Networking • Society • Cyberfluency vs. computer literacy

  5. Computing and Society • Skills survey • Survey • Search engines • Search • Search lab • Evaluating information on the web • Evaluate

  6. Computing and Society • Bulletin board • Web page design • Societal issues • Case studies and position papers • Student Projects

  7. Psychology of the Internet • What’s a cluster course? • This cluster course • Course goals

  8. Psychology of the Internet • Syllabus • Surprises

  9. Psychology of the Internet • Group projects: • Multi-disciplinary teams • Small group psychology • Events • Configuring a computer • Heavens’s Gate • Experiences of a web master • Final exam

  10. Conclusion • The dawn of a new era • Tools --- computing and networking • The next step?

  11. Contacting us • Tom Kelliher • http://phoenix.goucher.edu/~kelliher/ • Jill Zimmerman • http://phoenix.goucher.edu/~jillz/ • Sandra Webster • http://www.psych.westminster.edu/skw/

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