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<p>Information and communications technology (ICT) pervades virtually all domains of modern life—educational, professional, social, and personal. Yet although there have been numerous calls for linkages that enable ICT competencies acquired in one domain to benefit another, this goal has largely remained unrealized. In particular, while technology skills and applications at work could be greatly enhanced by earlier complementary learning at school—particularly in K-12 education, a formative and influential stage in a person's life—little progress has been made on such linkages. At present, the curricula of most U.S. high schools focus on skills in the use of tools such as specific word-processing software or contemporary Internet search engines. Although these kinds of skills are certainly valuable—at least for a while—they comprise just one component, and the most rudimentary component, of ICT competencies.<br> <br> The National Academies held a workshop in October 2005 to address the specifics of ICT learning during the high school years would require an explicit effort to build on that report. The workshop was designed to extend the work begun in the report Being Fluent with Inf

Author

National Research Council; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Center for Education; Board on Science Education; Planning Committee on ICT Fluency and High School Graduation Outcomes; Steven Marcus

Publisher

Washington, DC: National Academies Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780309192392

Subjects

Technology, Science, Education