Mathematical problems that require strategic and lateral thinking to solve - not
just good literacy skills.
Not exact matches
Just like the teaching of
literacy and numeracy can take many years beyond acquiring the basic
skills, so too should the teaching of technology - related
skills develop
well beyond the basics of word processing and website exploration.
While all of these targeted
skills are clearly components of successful
literacy performances, and students struggling with very specific domains might
well benefit from some targeted teaching or practice, successful
literacy learning is not
just a process of aggregating lots of individual component
skills.
Beware of the hype — the danger of which the Australian Nadia project seems, at least temporarily to have found out (IBM Watson was frankly
just not
good enough)-- but these could have a transformative effect on delivery moving beyond a need for
literacy and keyboard
skills to communication by voice.