Digital literacy
By: Paul Gilster.
Publisher: Wiley Computer Pub.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Internet literacy; Computer literacy
Description: Digital Literacy isn't a book about how to get around the Internet. That ground has been amply covered. Digital Literacy provides Internet novices with the basic thinking skills and core competencies they'll need to thrive in an interactive environment so fundamentally different from passive media such as television or print.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-270) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: ix; label: Chapter 1
title: Literacy for the Internet Age
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 2
title: The Nature of Digital Literacy
pagenum: 25; label: Chapter 3
title: An Internet Day
pagenum: 49; label: Chapter 4
title: Content Evaluation
pagenum: 87; label: Chapter 5
title: From Hypertext to Context
pagenum: 125; label: Chapter 6
title: Searching the Virtual Library
pagenum: 155; label: Chapter 7
title: Knowledge Assembly
pagenum: 195; label: Chapter 8
title: A Future for the Digitally Literate
pagenum: 229; title: Notes
pagenum: 261; title: Index
pagenum: 271