1. Information and Communication Technology Week 4

2. Agenda Check – In / Questions Overarching questions Lecture – Feel free to interrupt! Give me “wows and wonders” Before we leave tonight… Give me your questions for UW librarians

3. Overarching Questions How do you see technology as a tool in defining, teaching, and practicing information literacy? When is technology a hindrance to information literacy and when is it a help?

4. Lecture agenda - why is technology key? Attributes of an Agricultural, Industrial and Information age. Notion of access to technology for all The implications of open access Technologies transforming the way we use information

5. What Age are We In? AttributeAgriculturalIndustrialInformation WealthLandCapitalKnowledge TimeSunFactory WhistleTime Zone WorkplaceFarmCapital equipmentNetwork ToolsPloughMachinesComputers Problem Solving SelfDelegationIntegration KnowledgeGeneralizedSpecialized around professions Interdisciplinary LearningSelf taughtClassroomsOnline Based on the work of Barbara Endicott Poposky 2007

6. Mindset 1: Physical-Industrial The world basically operates on physical/material and industrial principles and logics. The world is “centered” and hierarchical. Value is a function of scarcity Production is based on an “industrial” model Products are material artifacts and commodities Production is based on infrastructure and production units and centers Tools are mainly production tools The individual person is the unit of production, competence, intelligence Expertise and authority are “located” in individuals and institutions Space is enclosed and purpose specific Social relations of “bookspace” prevail; a stable “textual order” Knobel and Lankshear, 2007, A New Literacies Sampler

7. Mindset 2: Cyberspatial-Postindustrial The world increasingly operates on non-material (e.g., cyberspatial) and post-industrial principles and logics. The world is “decentered” and “flat.” Value is a function of dispersion A “post-industrial” view of production Products as enabling services A focus on leverage and non-finite participation Tools are increasingly tools of mediation and relationship technologies The focus is increasingly on “collectives” as the unit of production, competence, intelligence Expertise and authority are distributed and collective; hybrid experts Space is open, continuous and fluid Social relations of emerging “digital media space” are increasingly visible; texts in change Knobel and Lankshear, 2007, A New Literacies Sampler

11. Implications Watch trends Lifelong learning Any technology lecture dinosaur Boundaries challenged Jobs changing rapidly Keep skills marketable Video: Pacific Northwest Tree OctopusPacific Northwest Tree Octopus

12. Access for All Brewster Kahle, The Internet Librarian, 2007 Laserow lecture Universal access to all human knowledge Digitizing all human knowledge “Grateful Dead” Access copyright and security Scanning every book in the world Archives: librarians are leading this movement

13. Trends Impact is that the technology is getting smaller and cheaper: storage less of an issue Social networking Collocation of information Anonymity of the internet Social Impact Privacy Crime E-commerce: roles relationships and expectations Surveillance and defense: 70% world’s knowledge now on computers

14. Education and Daily Life Change at an accelerated pace Life long learner Taking advantage of the new technology: “pack and go” Technology integrated to the learning not an add on Video: Mobile Technology: 2012 Mobile Technology: 2012

15. Therefore... What does everyone need to know about information and communication technology? Computer Literacy versus Fluency in Information Technology FIT Skills Concepts Capabilities

16. FIT: Skills Gain contemporary and immediately applicable skills. Become technically literate. Browse the Web with Internet Explorer, Safari, or Firefox Create and publish Web pages Transfer files with FTP Effectively use search engines Determine authenticity of Web sites Program with JavaScript Build a spreadsheet with Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Spreadsheets Design a database with Microsoft Access Understand database and online privacy issues Protect your computer from security threats

17. FIT: Concepts Reach an essential understanding of the foundations on which IT is built—surpassing technical literacy. Computers Information systems Networks Modeling and abstraction Algorithmic thinking Digital representations, such as MP3, ASCII, and JPG Limitations and societal impacts of IT

18. FIT: Capabilities Learn to apply IT in complex situations and understand the consequences. Surpass the conceptual level of IT understanding—achieving fluency. Manage complexity Test solutions Anticipate changes in technology Think about IT abstractly

19. Food for Thought How do we help people be able to keep up as technology evolves? What is the role of confidence? Being a techie versus a non-techie – arbitrary? When should someone know these things? Where should we learn these things? How does this knowledge effect future education? What is overlap and distinctions between info lit and FIT?

20. Up Next: Learners and Learning: Learning Theories Models of Teaching