Fluency with Information Technology, 6e (Snyder)
Chapter 23 A Fluency Summary: Click to Close
23.1 True/False Questions
1) When information is concerned, specifying structure is as essential as specifying content.
2) Organizing email correspondence, digital photos, and MP3 collections into folders and sub-
folders is an example of keeping the information structured so we can effectively use it.
3) For processes such as debugging and formulating a password, there are deterministic,
guaranteed-to-yield-a-solution rules.
4) As a contributor to lifelong learning, trying to solve our own problems and asking for help
when we’re truly stuck can contribute to greater understanding.
5) Skills require very little detailed knowledge, while basic concepts are highly detailed.
6) Thinking abstractly about technology implies an adaptive approach to learning.
1) Fluency knowledge consists of:
A) skills, concepts, and capabilities
B) skills, designs, and specifications
C) capabilities, creativity, and commitment
D) all of the above
2) Capabilities:
A) are much more detailed in comparison to skills
B) are primarily approaches to thinking
C) require a great deal of recall
D) all of the above
3) Learning computing throughout life requires:
A) retaining old technology for reference
B) being able to work independently without assistance
C) noticing new ideas and technology as they arise
D) all of the above
4) Algorithmic and non-algorithmic thinking are
A) reserved for experts only; most people just can’t do it.
B) just different applications of logical reasoning.
C) useful to solve problems in high tech, but not other areas of life.
D) completely unrelated ways of solving problems.
5) The three components of fluency knowledge are skills, _______ and capabilities.
A) categories
B) conditions
C) technology
D) concepts
6) When the author declares, “Fluency enables us, the users, to shift gears,” he means
A) we have the ability to build a car.
B) we can control computing devices to get their full power.
C) we have the ability to build a computer.
D) we should avoid using advanced tools, and stick with the basics.
1) An overarching theme of this textbook is that precision and the directed application of logical
________ can solve problems great and small, algorithmic and nonalgorithmic.
2) Our Fluency study allows us to remember less, rather than requiring us to remember more. We
remember less detail because we remember the ________ instead.
3) To learn about and apply upcoming advances in IT requires skepticism and ________.
4) Making sure you can ________ the error was the first step listed in the textbook’s debugging
guidelines.
5) Information technology learning is a process of lifelong ________.