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Welcome to Fluency in Technology

Welcome to Fluency in Technology. 24 August 2010 Diane Pozefsky. Agenda. Introductions Who am I? Who are you? Logistics What is technology fluency and why should you care?. Logistics. The source of all information: http://www.cs.unc.edu/Courses/comp101-f10/ Important:

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Welcome to Fluency in Technology

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  1. Welcome to Fluency in Technology 24 August 2010 Diane Pozefsky

  2. Agenda • Introductions • Who am I? • Who are you? • Logistics • What is technology fluency and why should you care?

  3. Logistics • The source of all information: http://www.cs.unc.edu/Courses/comp101-f10/ • Important: • Laptops everyday • Keep up with the little things • OFFICE HOURS • Software • Open source • Microsoft Office • NO TEXT

  4. Grading Policy • Late Policy • 3 free days • Extra credit if left at end • Earn extras by early assignments • Redos • 3 • 7 days from grade return

  5. What this course is about • How to communicate data and information in today’s technologies • To be comfortable with the underlying principles • To learn to think quantitatively

  6. Why you should care • Challenge: • Name a field that has not been or will not be impacted by technology • Reality: • Future leaders will be those with the vision to embrace and harness technology. • Do you want to lead, follow or get left behind?

  7. Course Goals • Demystify computers Fear is the main source of superstition … To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970) • Skills to use computers and especially • Web pages • Spreadsheets • Databases

  8. Want to create • Artifacts usable by people as well as computers • Working isn’t enough! • Solutions to complex problems • More than one step • Requirements • Need to be able to change • Need confidence in correctness

  9. Course Methodology • Just do it! • As you learn new skills, we’ll delve deeper • Don’t do things that you don’t understand! • New tools … that you can always use

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