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Jenifer Vanek – American Institutes for Research, 2020
This brief explains what digital literacy skills are and why they are important. It describes what skills students need for digital literacy and provides tips for integrating digital literacy in the adult education classroom.
Descriptors: Adult Education, Technological Literacy, Computer Networks, Problem Solving
Chetty, Marshini – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Technological infrastructure is often taken for granted in our day to day lives until it breaks down, usually because it invisibly supports tasks otherwise. Previous work in HCI has focused on how people react and deal with breaks in infrastructure as well as how to help people to fix or exploit these breaks. However, few have sought to understand…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Physical Environment, Family Environment, Computer System Design
Doctor, Ronald D.; Turner, Philip M. – 1991
This paper, which was presented to National Aeronautics and Space Administration librarians as part of a telecommunications conference, describes features of the proposed National Research and Education Network (NREN). First, NREN's predecessor, the National Science Foundation network (the current NSFnet/Internet system), is discussed and the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Databases, Democracy
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1993
This report, published in its entirety (OTA-TCT-578) and in a summary form (OTA-TCT-579) containing only the first chapter of the complete report, focuses on key topics and issues that are central to the successful use of electronic delivery by government. The review conducted by the Office of Technology Assessment concludes that the movement…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Change, Computer Networks, Cooperation
Ministry of Education, Helsinki (Finland). – 1995
This report is a written synthesis of opinions and observations on the role of emerging information technology in Finnish society. It surmises that such technology will benefit the educational system and increase research activity, thereby creating new channels of information access for the public, as long as national policymakers commit…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Change Strategies, Community Education, Computer Networks
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1996
Technological literacy--computer skills and the ability to use computers and other technology to improve learning, productivity, and performance--has become as fundamental to a person's ability to navigate through society as traditional skills like reading, writing, and arithmetic. The Technology Literacy Challenge, envisioning a 21st century…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education
Beacham, Betty; Kester, Diane D. – 1994
East Carolina University (North Carolina) and Pitt County Schools (North Carolina) have developed the Model Clinical Teaching Program (MCTP), to introduce preservice, inservice, and methods faculty to the information "superhighway." The project focuses on the what, how, and why of technologies as they relate to classrooms, in the public…
Descriptors: Access to Information, College School Cooperation, Computer Networks, Computer Software