IT Literacy

This course focuses heavily on digital fluency as a set of knowledge and skills that are necessary for the safe and effective use of digital technologies and Internet resources in various subject domains. Digital fluency is based on the ability to solve various problems with the help of information and communication technologies.

Throughout the course, students learn to use and create content with digital technologies, including searching and sharing information, interacting with other people in a digital environment, analyzing and visualizing various types of data. The emphasis is made on understanding the concept of Big Data and gaining the skill set necessary to work with various data-driven pipelines starting from simple ones, involving work with Google Spreadsheets and basic ETL processes, to more complex ones, introducing students to the basics of data engineering and data science.

The course comprises 8 workshops devoted to exploration and demonstration of capabilities to various digital tools and discussion of the possibilities and shortcomings of these tools in multiple scenarios followed up by 8 practical seminars with the emphasis on practical skills that students can hone via different assignments related to the digital environment.