Life-long Computer Skills
Jakob Nielsen suggests that there is value in teaching students skills that they can use immediately but that we should be careful. We should not teach skills that will change as soon as a software company updates their program. Instead we should be teaching students “deeper concepts that will benefit them forever.”
He outlines those concepts as:
- Search Strategies
- Information Credibility
- Dealing With Information Overload
- Writing for Online Readers
- Computerized Presentation Skills
- Workspace Ergonomics
- Debugging
- User Testing and other Basic Usability Guidelines
