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Tech giants team up on digital-literacy push
News Microsoft, Intel and Cisco plan to announce on Tuesday that they are working together to help ensure proper standards are created for measuring digital literacy. The three companies aren't coming up with the assessment criteria themselves, but...
[January 13, 2009, 10:49]
Tech-savvy young lack basic literacy skills
News School-leavers might be tech-savvy but they are increasingly entering the workplace without basic numerical and literacy skills, employers have warned. More than half (52 percent) of the employers questioned in the survey said they are dissatisfied...
[August 20, 2007, 16:04]
Ministry of Education Boosts Computer Literacy With Low-Cost Computer Campaign
White Papers All parties work together to deliver a successful project Enhanced country-wide computer literacy. With very few students boasting adequate computer skills, the Ministry of Education wanted to boost IT use in homes in Turkey.
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Technical literacy divides a nation
News She said there is a very real danger that ordinary literacy could find a parallel in technical literacy. Speaking today from the tiny principality of Monaco where research firm IDC is holding its annual e-commerce forum, Puni Rajah said countries...
[June 7, 1999, 16:19]
Integrating BlackBerry Wireless Devices Into Computer Programming and Literacy Courses
White Papers This paper describes the experience in integrating the RIM's BlackBerry handheld wireless device into programming and literacy courses at the University of Guelph and the University of Guelph-Humber. The courses are lab-intensive where students...
[January 9, 2009, 0:00]
Britain is world's leader in computer literacy
News Commissioned by Olivetti Personal Computers the report states that Britain has the highest computer to student ratio anywhere. A third of British homes have a computer, equal with Belgium and besting the US where 28 per cent of homes give house...
[September 3, 1997, 14:04]
PocketLingo Cultural Literacy Dictionary (The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy) for Palm OS
Downloads PocketLingo Cultural LiteracyReference and Learning Softwarefeaturing The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy by E.D. HirschPocketLingo Cultural Literacy is the ultimate family reference software for PDA's to the people, places, and events...
[November 7, 2003, 6:00]
Strengthening a Balanced Approach to Literacy With mCLASS Solutions
White Papers Bellevue's elementary schools were using a paper-based formative assessment to evaluate students' needs, but it was given just one or two times a year, depending on the grade level. District staff report that the assessment data had limitations and...
[April 30, 2009, 1:19]
Digital Literacy: Internet Misconceptions
White Papers Information is available from many sources and in many formats, such as printed text, television, videos, library databases, web sites, and more. To be "Information literate" one needs to know why, when, and how to use all of these tools and think...
[October 6, 2007, 1:00]
IC3 Certification Boosts Potential and Opportunities for Students, Teachers, and Parents at Northern Arizona Junior High School
White Papers In 2005, the Holbrook Unified District School Board instituted new computer literacy requirements for 8th graders at Holbrook Junior High School. Students are now required to pass a basic computer literacy course and have consequences for not...
[June 16, 2006, 0:00]
IT illiteracy drags on UK economy
News The UK is losing millions of working hours a week due to a lack of basic IT literacy, according to a report published on Friday by City & Guilds, the UK's principal body for work-related accreditations.
[November 7, 2008, 14:19]
Tech missionaries spread the Net
News Room to Read, a not-for-profit start-up dedicated to improving literacy in developing nations, will launch a new division on Wednesday to wire impoverished classrooms in Asia to the Internet. Computer Room is the start-up's effort to close the...
[May 23, 2002, 7:32]
How to Lead and Manage the IT-Literate Workforce
White Papers When it comes to IT knowledge, the literacy of non-technical staff at U.S.companies still varies from near-expert to no-clue. While levels of IT expertise in the general workforce will naturally vary depending on industry, this ExecBlueprint...
[September 9, 2009, 11:51]
India's Kerala state goes open source
News India's Kerala state government is counting on open-source software to boost its IT literacy rate. Kerala has always been a leader in literacy and now we want to make Kerala a leader in e-literacy," said Kerala chief minister VS Achutanandan.
[June 29, 2007, 10:05]
Government gives further boost to employee-PC scheme
News The government on Monday launched new guidelines to help kickstart the UK's computer literacy through Home Computing Initatives (HCI), which entail getting bosses to give PCs to their staff. Adam Crozier, Royal Mail chief executive, said that the...
[January 20, 2004, 10:25]
BT details success of PC loan scheme
News BT has loaned 30,000 PCs to staff for home use as part of its policy to encourage flexible working and raise digital literacy levels in the two years it has been taking part in the government's Home Computing Initiative (HCI).
[March 15, 2006, 11:25]
"Don't let Europe slip behind the US" - Intel
News He urged universities and businesses schools across Europe to team-up with industry in a bid to improve digital literacy and IT skills. The use of the Internet and development of e-commerce application require the development of digital literacy...
[September 23, 1998, 13:56]
Microsoft saves digitally excluded from not being Microsoft customers
Blog The event in question was the launch of a government backed IT literacy scheme which all sounds great. The answer it seems to how to bring the existing digitally excluded up to speed and ensure that future generations are tech-savvy enough to...
[April 24, 2008, 15:46]
2010: The year of the techie
News Those with a greater degree of technological literacy may find themselves moving up the corporate hierarchy more quickly than those without. But despite the increasing importance of technical literacy, real technical skills will continue to be in...
[May 17, 2006, 13:20]
All our computers are belong to Microsoft
Blog The article goes on to say that since 1996 the college has been running a "literacy program" for staff -- and here I'm assuming they mean "computer literacy" rather than courses for the teachers that can't read and write -- and that going back to...
[August 5, 2008, 18:18]
