Cyberfluency in the 21st Century: Vive le Cyberspace

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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?
• New ways of communicating
• Pitfalls of the cyber world

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Introduction

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

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Cyberfluency

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

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Computing and Society

• Skills survey
• Survey
• Search engines
• Search
• Search lab
• Evaluating information on the web
• Evaluate

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Computing and Society

• Bulletin board
• Web page design
• Societal issues
• Case studies and position papers
• Student Projects

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Psychology of the Internet

• Whats a cluster course?
• This cluster course
• Course goals

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Psychology of the Internet

• Syllabus
• Surprises

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Psychology of the Internet

• Group projects
• Multi-disciplinary teams
• Small group psychology
• Events
• Configuring a computer
• Heavenss Gate
• Experiences of a web master
• 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
• http//phoenix.goucher.edu/kelliher/
• Jill Zimmerman
• http//phoenix.goucher.edu/jillz/
• Sandra Webster
• http//www.psych.westminster.edu/skw/