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ERIC Number: ED290455
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985-Feb
Pages: 22
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
The Information Society and the Educational System. Technical Report No. 16.
Mioduser, David; And Others
This paper discusses the concept of information literacy as the main framework within which the concept of computer literacy may be defined, describes in detail the design of a complete curriculum in information literacy intended for all students in elementary and junior high schools, and provides an example of this design with a specific learning unit for grade 6 entitled "Information in-Formation." This curriculum is part of a larger program entitled MABAT, the Hebrew acronym for Science in a Technological Society. The unit comprises four chapters: (1) The World of Information; (2) Information Processing; (3) Information Processing in the Human Brain; and (4) The Computer--An Information Processing Machine. Materials for the unit are briefly described, including a textbook containing various activities and reading excerpts, models to be built and operated, games, computer software, enrichment notebooks, and kits for assembly. The development of both this unit and an independent parallel project, the computer simulation "The Transparent Computer," and status of the unit at the time this report was written are briefly described. Appended materials include an outline of a proposed course for grades 1-9, Man Coping within an Information Society, and the syllabus for the Information in-Formation course. (EW)
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Researchers
Language: English
Sponsor: Israel Ministry of Education, Jerusalem.
Authoring Institution: Tel-Aviv Univ. (Israel). Computers in Education Research Lab.
Identifiers - Location: Israel
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A