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Enhancing Tech Literacy Through Critical Thinking

Explore the significance of critical thinking in technological literacy, comparing computer labs to classrooms and utilizing PowerPoint and FrontPage for effective communication. Learn to avoid common PowerPoint mistakes and embrace principles for successful digital content creation.

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Enhancing Tech Literacy Through Critical Thinking

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  1. Technological Literacy Using Technology to Talk About Technology

  2. Overview • Functionality vs. Critical Application • Computer Lab vs. Classroom • Technological Literacy Modules • PowerPoint • FrontPage • Conclusion

  3. Functionality • Capability • Following a process • No analysis

  4. What’s wrong with that? • Students already know • Lacks connection • Not CIS 120

  5. A Critical Approach • Thinking rather than doing • Extension of classroom • Expands understanding of “texts”

  6. Computer Lab vs. Classroom • Not separate entities • Opens new channels • Offers new activities

  7. Tech Literacy Modules • Correspond to classroom lessons • Analyze known processes • Present opportunities for discussion • Take a look

  8. PowerPoint: A Digital Text • Images and words • Reinforces speech • Uses rhetoric

  9. Save the Children (Example) • 24,000 die daily • Small donation • Staff worldwide

  10. PowerPoint Mistakes People often see PowerPoint as a crutch used to help remember a speech. The tendency in such cases is to put so much text on each slide that the presenter must stare at the screen, and not his/her audience. It’s also difficult for the audience to listen to the speaker and read a slide simultaneously. I mean, this slide could outline the mating habits of chimpanzees and you’d never know it – by the time you reached that point, the slide would be gone. Also, could you tell from the previous slide that I like koalas, because I really do like them. They’re neat.

  11. PowerPoint Mistakes (cont’d) • Transitions can often be annoying • When not used consistently • Only use them • When you want your audience • To focus on one point at a time

  12. Microsoft FrontPage • Intertextuality • Understanding through participation • Wealth of rhetoric

  13. Conclusion? • Don’t downplay importance • Use technology for augmentation • Reinforce thinking, not doing

  14. Thinking Back • Consistencies? • Organizational strategies? • Rhetorical Strategies?

  15. Principles of PowerPoint • Never use sound (ever) • Rhetorical Triangle • Use pictures when warranted • Don’t use whole sentences • Slide transitions – sparingly and consistently

  16. Principles of FrontPage • Audience! • Two-click test • Don’t offend retinas • Use pictures sparingly • Intuitive navigation

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