Taxonomy of Technate Skills
To be technate is primarily about this consciousness or awareness that the world of text making and production has changed because of electronic language; it is to be aware of text making and its associated problems within the context of operation . Secondarily, however technacy is about the skills through which technacy, or this awareness of electronic language, is expressed.
The technologies of electronic language might be defined as those developments of electronic language that have a cost to the user. The cost may be the purchase or the payment of a teacher, or the cost of purchasing a computer and spending time (another cost) in order to learn how it works. The technology, or technologies, developed as a result involve skills which enable the person to complete tasks or do work that would otherwise have been impossible or very difficult for the person to accomplish ¾ a difficulty or impossibility, such as the person who researches, on the Internet, world -wide availability of a particular type of computer part in less than four minutes. Technologies associated with technacy can be identified as: operating , composing , simulating , and programming.
Operating
Obtain a computer
for personal use
Download and install
trial software
Maintain personal
computer workspace
Composing
Simulating
Programming