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Computer Literacy and IT Leaving Profiles
Bernard Bérubé
IT Educational Advisor, Collège Gérald-Godin
The Issue
By now, everyone feels that students must attain a minimal mastery of Information Technology to research and process information. We are adding computer literacy into the toolbox of the Everyman of the Twenty-First Century where many feel that it has as much relevance as literacy with the written word. The need for training in IT has been demonstrated in studies by l’OCDE, de Statistics Canada et de la CRÉPUQ (in French).
This article is a glimpse into the two year long process to develop an exit profile for students in the Humanities Programme and the Accounting and Management Technologies Programme.
Two Programmes Targeted
As the creation of new programmes with greater local options occurred in colleges, the ministère de l’Éducation (MEQ) created a task force to find someone in each school to function as an IT representative. This experimental grouping was to study the use of Information Technology in the programme of Humanities and the programme of Business Administration Accounting and Management Technologies. The network of IT Representatives met for the first time in November 2002 in a effervescently creative atmosphere. This meeting resulted in the formation of a working committee to develop an IT exit standard for each of the two programmes under study.
The Exit Standard for Humanities
As with any programme revision, the local programme committees in each school were asked to participate in the development of an IT exit standard by researching the place of Information Technology within their programme. With Humanities, this was largely a description of a sixth goal of the programme which involved determining how courses would contribute to the development of appropriate IT attitudes and habits.
The first year, the working committee formed by the MEQ decided to concentrate on the IT exit standard for Humanities. Three IT Representatives, accepted prime responsibility for the work in partnership with other network members. The core team included Bernard Bérubé of Collège Gérald-Godin, Raymond Boulanger and Lyse Favreau of the MEQ, René Fradette of Cégep de La Pocatière, Richard Lafaille of Collège de Maisonneuve and André Lecomte of the provincial teachers' committee for Humanities (Comité des enseignantes et des enseignants du programme de Sciences humaines) and teacher at Cégep de Trois-Rivières. First the members of the committee had to determine how the staff in their own colleges was making links between Information Technology and Humanities and then research the situation in other colleges of the network. The synthesis of this research resulted in a proposed exit standard which was presented to the IT Representatives on April 23, 2003. Following modification by this group, the document was finalized and made available to teachers in the Quebec College Network to use as they wished in the preparation of their courses.
The standard consisted of a generalized statement of ability that was subdivided into four components. It underscored those aspects of the programme that had an IT dimension.
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