The Changing Nature of Telecommunications/Information Infrastructure

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Newman, Dennis, Susan Bernstein, and Paul A. Reese. 1992. Local Infrastructure for School Networking: Current Models and Prospects, BBN Report No. 7726. BBN Systems and Technologies, Cambridge, Mass., April.

New York Times. 1993. "Gore Views the Data Highway," December 22.

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Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS). 1991. What Work Requires of Schools. U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C.

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NOTE

SCANS (1991) defines a framework that can serve as the foundation for the establishment of education goals and objectives in future U.S. citizens. Whether they work on a shop floor on in an executive suite, they will need to master the following competencies and foundations skills:

COMPETENCIES:

1. Resources: identifies, organizes, plans, and allocates resources.

2. Interpersonal: works with others.

3. Information: acquires and uses information.

4. Systems: understands complex interrelationships.

5. Technology: works with a variety of technologies.

A THREE-PART FOUNDATION:

• Basic skills: reads, writes, performs arithmetic and mathematical operations, listens, and speaks.

• Thinking skills: thinks creatively, makes decisions, solves problems, visualizes, knows how to learn, and reasons.

• Persons qualities: displays responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, self-management, integrity, and honesty.

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