Liberal Education: Beyond Computer Literacy 2004

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Liberal Education: Beyond  Computer Literacy

Beyond  Computer Literacy
http://www.aacu-edu.org/liberaleducation/le-fa04/le-fa04feature1.cfm
Liberal Education, Fall 2004

[First, the summary from the News bulletin from the Chronicle of Higher 
Education, 5.2.7:]

Computers and the Internet already play important roles in liberal 
education, but greater attention is needed to the educational outcomes of 
the technologies, argues Stephen Ehrmann, vice president of the Teaching, 
Learning, and Technology Group, a consulting organization that focuses on 
teaching with technology.

More and more of the goals of liberal education, such as analytical 
thinking and communication skills, require technological proficiency, Mr. 
Ehrmann writes. For example, students need to acquire skills in finding, 
retrieving, and analyzing information in a library, on the Internet, or 
elsewhere.

One way to gauge students' computer literacy is to require them to turn in 
electronic portfolios of their work, Mr. Ehrmann says. Portfolios could 
include Web projects, video recordings of oral presentations, and students' 
thoughts on how those tasks advanced their skills and learning, and the 
portfolios could even be made available to prospective employers, he says.

Electronic portfolios could also help faculties see how well students are 
meeting instructional goals, and that could guide curricular change, he 
suggests. "When portfolios are used in that way, the doorway to rapid, 
intentional evolution of liberal education opens," he writes.

Institutions that are already taking account of such changes and 
possibilities are the ones that will "redefine what it means to be an 
educated person in the 21st century," he argues.
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Beyond Computer Literacy:
Implications of Technology for the Content of a College Education

    By Stephen Ehrmann

    Computers and the Internet already play several important roles in
    liberal education.
     1. Computer literacy and fluency: the ability of students to use
        computers and the Internet as tools for general purposes

     2. Effectiveness: the use of technology to foster faculty-student
        connections, student-student collaboration, active learning, and
        other practices that can improve outcomes

     3. Access: the use of technology to support programs and practices
        that are fully available to nontraditional learners who would
        otherwise be unable to enroll and excel

    All three of these applications are well established and growing. Now
    there's another application of technology to liberal education to
    consider:
     4. Content: Computers and the Internet, as they're used in the larger
        world, have implications for what all college students, by the
        time they graduate, should have learned from their majors as well
        as from general education requirements. These implications go far
        beyond computer literacy.

    What students should learn <snip>

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