Technology, Literacy, and Early Industrial Expansion in the United States

1990 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward W. Stevens
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Technology Literacy ◽  
Industrial Expansion

City Managers and E-Government Development

2009 ◽  
pp. 349-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Streib ◽  
Ignacio Navarro
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Knowledge Assessment ◽  
Technology Literacy ◽  
City Managers ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Technology Practice ◽  
Applied Knowledge ◽  
Generational Variations ◽  
Government Development

The development of e-government has attracted considerable scholarly interest in recent years, but relatively little has been written about the capacity to develop and provide new e-government services. This chapter seeks to add to our knowledge in this area by assessing the ability of city managers in the United States, to effectively champion e-government development. We present an analysis of scores on the technology practice of the ICMA Applied Knowledge Assessment demonstrating that city managers possess relevant knowledge, but we also find some interesting generational variations in technology literacy and knowledge about managing technology. We also examine the ability of city managers to provide leadership for e-government development and identify some important challenges. We conclude that there are limits to capacity that could delay e-government developments in the future and offer some recommendations on how to limit their impact.

Achieving University-Wide Instructional Technology Literacy

2005 ◽  
pp. 130-145
Author(s):  
Katia Passerini ◽  
Kemal Cakici
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Instructional Design ◽  
Program Effectiveness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Technology Literacy ◽  
Technology Skills ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Technology In The Classroom

This chapter reviews the efforts of a large university located in the East Coast of the United States to support faculty technology literacy through participation in development programs featuring a mix of technology skills and instructional design seminars. The success of these programs is evaluated on a series of criteria: faculty needs and satisfaction, ability to meet faculty learning objectives, and short-term and long-term benefits in terms of new initiatives implementation. Survey protocols and instruments used to evaluate program effectiveness are included to support future implementations by other institutions. The authors intend to encourage the development of similar programs, and the understanding of current obstacles that hinder a full deployment of technology in the classroom.

scholarly journals Divisions of Labor: The Splintered Geography of Labor Markets and Movements in Industrializing America, 1790–1930

1993 ◽  
Vol 38 (S1) ◽  
pp. 5-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carville Earle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Labor History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Wage Determination ◽  
Industrial Expansion ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
Geographical Scale

Among the various methodological prescriptions of Anthony Giddens, perhaps the most useful for labor history are his advisories on social change, on the anxieties and tensions attending a society's transition from one geographical scale to another. Labor's experience in the United States offers a case in point. The nation's transformation from a preindustrial to an industrial society entailed, in addition to the inexorables of accelerated urbanization, industrial expansion, and market extension, certain fundamental changes in the conditions of labor. Industrialization restructured the geography of labor markets, revised principles of wage determination, fomented sectarian division in the ranks of labor, and soured the relations between labor and capital. These structural changes led, in turn, to the inevitable responses of, among others, worker combination, protest, industrial violence, and a splintering in the ranks of labor.

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