Information and Communication Technologies literacy from engineering students at the University of Buenos Aires

Author

Clua, Osvaldo ; Feldgen, Maria

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Univ. of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

fYear

2013

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

931

Lastpage

936

Abstract

A survey concerning literacy in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) was held at the School of Engineers of the University of Buenos Aires. The overall aim was to state if ICT literacy could be considered as an existing background among our student population. In addition we wanted to identify possible environments where students and faculty can interact and learning is possible. Building such environments is highly dependent on previous experience of students to ICT and its breadth of use. In this work we detail the survey results, draw some conclusions and outline some considerations on how to deal with ICT in the classroom.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer literacy; educational institutions; ICT literacy; School of Engineers; University of Buenos Aires; engineering students; information and communication technology literacy; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Electronic publishing; Internet; Interviews; Social network services; Software; ICT Literacy; background skills; computer in the classroom; freshmen;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Oklahoma City, OK

ISSN

0190-5848

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2013.6684965

Filename

6684965