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IP: Information Technology Literacy
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:04:12 -0500
Please circulate widely... In an earlier message, the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council announced a project to explicate the various dimensions of what might be called information technology (IT) literacy and posed a number of questions for computer and communucations scientists and engineers. The project committee has now developed sets of different questions for other stakeholder groups, including employers and labor professionals, librarians, and K-12 educators. (Questions for informations systems professionals will be posted soon.) These questions may be found at http://www2.nas.edu/cstbweb/549a.html The committee invites you to submit your answers to these questions in the form of a short position paper (5 pages or less); in addition, please identify your field of expertise and your institutional affiliation. All responses will be considered by the committee. In addition, respondents may be invited to participate in a workshop to be held in Irvine, California on January 14-15, 1998 whose purpose is to discuss answers to these and other related questions. Or, they may be invited to revise their position paper for inclusion in the committee's final report. DEADLINES: ? December 15, 1997, for those who wish to be considered for participation in the workshop. ? February 1, 1998 for those who wish their input to be considered by the committee. EMAIL ADDRESS FOR INPUT: IT-Lit () nas edu FAX FOR INPUT: 202-334-2318 U.S. MAIL ADDRESS FOR INPUT: Dr. Herb Lin, Study Director CSTB National Research Council Room HA-560 2101 Constitution Ave, NW Washington, DC 20418 202-334-3191 voice COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP Lawrence Snyder, Chair, University of Washington Alfred V. Aho, Columbia University Marcia C. Linn, University of California, Berkeley Arnold H. Packer, Johns Hopkins University Allen B. Tucker, Jr., Bowdoin College Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University Andries van Dam, Brown University ************************************************** "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin, ~1784 **************************************************
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