[rtpnet-tact] Article about Teaching Life-Long Computer Skills

[Judy Hallman]

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I'm forwarding below a post to the NTEN Discuss list. The article is 
interesting.

Judy Hallman
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Subject: [NTEN Discuss] Article about Teaching Life-Long Computer Skills
Date: 27 Feb 2007 17:30:17 -0000
To: nten-discuss <nten-discuss at groups.nten.org>

Jacob Neilsen's latest Alertbox about teaching life-long computer
skills rather than applications may be interesting for those of us
doing technology instruction and management. He outlines some of the
skills that he thinks would be useful for children (and presumably
other computer newbies) to learn, including search strategy, dealing
with information overload, writing for the internet, etc. Check it
out:

Summary:
Schools should teach deep, strategic computer insights that
can't be learned from reading a manual.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/computer-skills.html

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