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Foundations of Information Technology: A Critical Assessment and Application

This course material explores the critical assessment of Information Technology (IT) and its pervasive role in our lives, guided by a Reformed perspective. It emphasizes understanding the tools we use, improving our fluency with them, and analyzing their strengths and weaknesses. By examining how technology can support God's creation, students will learn to utilize IT for meaningful purposes such as preaching the Gospel, promoting justice, and serving the community. Insights from thought leaders like Vinton Cerf will also guide discussions on truth in the digital age.

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Foundations of Information Technology: A Critical Assessment and Application

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  1. IDIS 110Foundations of Information Technology

  2. All Course Material • Find everything on Moodle • http://moodle.calvin.edu

  3. Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. - attributed to Thomas Carlysle

  4. Why FIT? • Critically assessing technology • Pervasiveness of information technologies • Fluencyin information technologies • Learn to use tools better • Like learning to use a paintbrush or a chainsaw better. • You can express yourself better.

  5. Critically Assessing Technology • Vinton Cerf: “Truth and the Internet” • http://www.isoc.org/internet/conduct/truth.shtml • Read this! • What is the tool we have to analyze what we see, hear, and use?

  6. What’s the Big Idea Reformed Views of Technology • Information technology is part of God’s creation and its use is redeemable. • Doing this requires that we: • Understand the issue. • Determine if an IT-based solution is possible. • Identify the strengths/weaknesses of the solution • Work to achieve the strengths and address the weaknesses • What other positions could you take?

  7. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each? • How do you decide what is a strength or weakness, and how do you decide when a weakness is “too high a price to pay”? What Information Technology Do You Use?

  8. Q: how could the devices we have (or the devices we can imagine) be used to promote the kingdom of God? • Preach the Gospel • Provide mercy • Promote justice • Serve the poor • We might all be able to have better ideas if we were more fluent. What is possible?

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