Title :
Elements that Advocate the Nurturing of Digital Fluency
Author :
Bologa, Razvan ; Lupu, Ana Ramona ; Sabau, Gheorghe
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Dept., Acad. of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
Abstract :
The article extends the research of the authors in the field of digital fluency and presents new experimental results obtained while testing tools that have been developed for increasing the digital fluency of young students. It starts from the findings presented in a previous article and brings data that advocates the correlation between the level of digital fluency and the capacity of students to use common software tools. The conclusions of the article can be useful for all of those who are involved into building young minds for the knowledge age.
Keywords :
computer science education; program testing; software tools; digital fluency; knowledge age; software testing tools; Application software; Communication system control; Computer networks; Computer science; Electronic mail; Information technology; Internet; Search engines; Software tools; Testing; Digital fluency; Information Age; Knowledge Age; Scratch;
Conference_Titel :
Future Networks, 2009 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3567-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICFN.2009.28