Gmail

I have found Gmail to be confusing and unresponsive. If that is because it insists on opeating in the Google Chrome platform thent that is unfortunate because my Internet Explorer seems to work fine to meet the needs of the class so far. I do not see the need to switch to a completely different browser and have to go through the new leasrning curve when the amount if new learning in this class is challenging enough without changing basic operating procedures.

mario

Literacy

Computer literacy refers to the degree of computer operation familiarity or ease of use. In other words, it’s the ability to use a computer to conduct research projects and data mining. I will liken computer literacy to toolbox literacy for a carpenter. The carpenter could be an apprentice or a master. One has minimum toolbox literacy and the other has maximum toolbox literacy.

Information literacy refers to critical thinking or the ability to conduct effective environmental scanning of all available information, screen out irrelevant information, and screen in relevant information. This cognitive processing of information leads to synthesis of solutions to the questions at hand.

Integration literacy refers to the ability to bring together successful traditional proven education/learning methods and 21^st century technology. Once they are brought into each other’s presence they are joined into an integrated union with the best potentialities of the past, present, and future. One example is a life-long appreciation of music integrated or joined to the technological ‘enhancement’ of high-quality sound engineering.

mario