Fluency with Information Technology gives students the experience, knowledge, and capabilities needed to apply information technology effectively throughout their lives.

Such an ambitious goal eclipses the current objectives of the computer literacy syllabus, which has traditionally focused only on imparting immediately useful skills. Fluency contains literacy, but adds problem solving, reasoning, complexity management and other higher level thinking processes, as well as broader coverage of technological topics that prepare students to keep pace with the ever-advancing technology. The result is a curriculum constructed from equal parts of application proficiency, timeless knowledge, and thinking.

A recent article written by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer highlights Snyder's new UW class that aims to help students become fluent in basic computer usage.

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