OBJECTIVES Knowledge concerning antibiotic use in the general population is insufficient. The way health literacy is related to antibiotic use aside from knowledge needs further investigation. Our aim was to compare the levels of knowledge of antibiotics and health literacy in individuals who had taken antibiotics in recent years compared with those who not had taken antibiotics. METHODS A po...

Although the technical skills of pupils are quite high, the current approach to gain media literacy still focuses on updating software applying skills, rather than exploring the potential for learning and the nature of digital media as programmed entities. Most educational research was focussed on the computer simply as a tool or a resource, rather than on the idea of making transparent informa...

This article discusses three levels of computer use—literacy, fluency and flexibility. Literacy is about the use of particular tools to satisfy well-defined tasks while fluency is a deeper form of knowledge that allows people to adapt to the uncertainties of computing and keep up with new, technological trends. Computational flexibility suggests the further capacity to invent software when exis...

s The Government's 2002 Communications Bill (Draft) promises for the first time to 'promote media literacy' among the population of the UK, improving public awareness and understanding of contents and services provided through electronic media. s In order to establish the present level of media literacy among the UK population, and in order to set the benchmark against which future initiatives ...

Every year, two thirds of college seniors (about 1.8 million) in the US graduate with significant debts, but most of them are poorly equipped with essential financial knowledge to manage their debts and make intelligent financial decisions. Programming courses are uniquely positioned to offer opportunities to help students improve financial literacy. However, there have been no integrated cours...

The focus of this paper is to turn our attention to the arts as an understudied area within the computer-supported collaborative learning community and examine how studying the learning of arts and programming can open new avenues of research. We document, describe, and analyze urban youths’ media arts practices within the context of the design studio, particularly by focusing on how collaborat...

Objective: This study aimed to measure the association between efficacy/efficiency of digital information retrieval among community family physicians at point care and computer literacy. Methods: is a part cross-sectional anonymous online survey-based who reported no affiliation with an academic institution in eight Arab countries. Results: A total 72 were included. The mean score for literacy ...