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More information on the assessment a couple clicks away[0]: > ICILS 2018 assesses two dimensions of an individual's skills with information communications tech

by jgwil2 6y ago

More information on the assessment a couple clicks away[0]: > ICILS 2018 assesses two dimensions of an individual's skills with information communications technologies. The first dimension, computer and information literacy, focuses on understanding computer use, gathering information, producing information, and communicating digitally. The second dimension, computational thinking, focuses on conceptualizing problems and operationalizing solutions. > Computational thinking is the style of thinking used when programming a computer or developing an application for another type of digital device. However, its usefulness extends beyond this. The reasoning strategies that underlie computational thinking can help make sense of complex ideas and solve problems. Seems that the first dimension constitutes the ubiquitous use of computers in school for research, word processing, etc. The second dimension is what we would expect kids to learn in an introductory computer science class. I'm not surprised that the latter skill is lacking but that only 19% of students were able to use computers for information gathering and management is rather shocking. [0] https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/icils/about.asp https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/icils/about.asp

salawat 6y ago
Not to me. I think those of us that learned the art of the search engine before Search Engine Optimization had an environment to learn fundamental skills in that has all but disappeared in the adversarial rush for top search result. I can't say as any of the kids I know have even shown an inkling of awareness on how to do research at all. I just see a bunch of online sources being attributed to in the locality I live in. Yet when I was in school, you were trained, and expected to delve into online, periodical, book, magazine, film, archive, you name it. Those skills, and navigating systems of information organization are critical to creating the pre-requisite intution for composing boolean logic in arbitrarily advanced ways. I can't imagine how difficult it must be for kids now to find things when there is an entire industry focused around exploiting/manipulating the overall information index of the Internet. Nevermind for evaluating the resulting content for usefulness or veracity.

by jgwil2 6y ago

salawat 6y ago

Not to me. I think those of us that learned the art of the search engine before Search Engine Optimization had an environment to learn fundamental skills in that has all but disappeared in the adversarial rush for top search result. I can't say as any of the kids I know have even shown an inkling of awareness on how to do research at all. I just see a bunch of online sources being attributed to in the locality I live in. Yet when I was in school, you were trained, and expected to delve into online, periodical, book, magazine, film, archive, you name it. Those skills, and navigating systems of information organization are critical to creating the pre-requisite intution for composing boolean logic in arbitrarily advanced ways. I can't imagine how difficult it must be for kids now to find things when there is an entire industry focused around exploiting/manipulating the overall information index of the Internet. Nevermind for evaluating the resulting content for usefulness or veracity.