Business Technology Essentials – L.J. Bothell – 2023 | Business Technology & Computer Applications

Business Technology Essentials provides a survey of computing and digital coverage and skills necessary to engage in academic settings and in the work market. This includes a survey of practical computing skills; coverage about digital citizenship; application practice in utility and productivity programs; and overviews on various business technology-related issues like privacy, security, workplace preparation, etc. This book is not an exhaustive reference manual, and much of the coverage is about the high points and fairly generalized. Technology and digital citizenship changes too fast and too much for static text and specific examples to be useful for very long. This book will not be able to list every permutation or version of everything, or every insight, or every piece of hardware or system tool. A learner or instructor will always find something that has been left out or become current in the moment. The author is not a generative AI bot, and can’t aggregate and interpret every piece of available information on the whole Internet. Instead, this book is designed to prompt discussions of main points to help instructors and learners have a starting point for debates, reviews of current needs and topics, and practices of workplace computing skills. It will have only a few specific references to information sources and tools, as a nod to what seems to be currently long-term reliable sourcing and access (like US Government data sites). However, it is recognized and expected that instructors will tailor the overview aspects of this textbook with needed actual in-the- classroom examples they research as part of their own curriculum-building. Instructors may choose to change the order in which the information in this book is currently presented, based on the length of their course offering and/or the needs of the topic(s) at hand. They will make their own videos, and look for additional current demo videos, tutorial links, and other study aids like LinkedIn Learning and free open-learning academies, workshops, and student-learning tools. Great examples and issues can be discovered in educator publications and professional development groups. Self-study learners can use their preferred search engine and unbiased information-finding tools to look for relevant examples (especially after covering the chapter on Communications Media Accuracy). Worker Retraining advisors can suggest avenues for learners to pursue in workshops and practices