IP: Information Technology Literacy

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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








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