Technology Literacy
What is Technology
Literacy?
“Many jobs require
computer skills, technical knowledge and the ability to learn and adapt to new
technologies. Employers expect you to be able to use technology to complete
tasks and to improve your job performance.”
Most jobs nowadays have a
good eye for those with the ability to use a computer, here at New Tech, this
is one of our prime ways to prepare the student body for that job as a graphic
designer, or a typist, or any other computer related job that you could think
of. Technology Literacy is the ability to use a computer and all of the
different sorts of programs and applications that come with it. In fact, it
would be reasonable to say that anyone who goes to New Tech will not survive
for very long without adapting to our computer based environment. Of course,
there are classes that teach you how to use computers and their programs such
as Power Skills and Digital Media. Although Power Skills is a more basic class
for computers and their programs such as Microsoft Office Word and PowerPoint,
whereas Digital Media teaches you about the fundamentals and basics of other
programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator or Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver
and Fireworks.
The best possible evidence
of my Technology Literacy would be this portfolio, which utilizes all of my
skills as far as Technology Literacy goes, including the use of Photoshop,
Fireworks, Dreamweaver and saving Word documents as html.