Lesson 45 - New Literacy

Build websites by Christmas

LEARN

Web Development

Computers and phones request content from web servers

New Ideas of Literacy

• 1980 - 3Rs
• 1990 - Computers - Microsoft Office
• 2000 - Internet - Google, Amazon
• 2010 - Phone - Social Media
• 2020 - Human Connection - YouTube

Literacy Today

• Google
• eCommerce
• Social media
• Crowd sourcing

Literacy Today

• Understand the human impact of technology
• The new literacy is about using technology to connect
• Avoid the harmful affects of technology
• Create sustainable and healthy practices

Opportunity

• Understanding technology is your competitive advantage.
• Workplace restructuring is your key opportunity.
• Literacy is always about sharing ideas.
• You will be hired to help with technology.

Software Runs the World

• Every industry - Retail, Transportation, Health care, Education, Government, Business, Research
• Every aspect of work
• Every business

Web Development

Computers and phones request content from web servers

What will you learn?

• Business and Social Issues
• Technology - how it works
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
• Projects - hands-on creative problem solving
  • Design - Beautiful pages
  • Development - Tools & Techniques

Zybooks Reading

• Sign up for Zybooks
• Reading assigned every day

Website for BACS 200

• https://mark-seaman.github.io/bacs200
• Github Pages Repo
• View the website for BACS 200

Git Repo for BACS 200

• https://github.com/Mark-Seaman/mark-seaman.github.io
• Public repo to publish course content
• Pull the repo to edit the content