http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~knetlit/archives/cat_manifesto.html

by Adrian Miles and Jeremy Yuille

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Creative Computing
contexts

We teach students who work in the creative industries. In creative computing contexts the products and processes of these industries are soft artifacts. They may be ideas, interfaces, or media. All remain malleable , before, during and after completion.

Their graduate computing context consists of small enterprises where IT skills are distributed amongst the work group. These skills are informal and self developed. There is no IT department and IT systems are self managed. It is common for graduates in these industries to be self employed.

This manifesto defines how we use computers in teaching and learning for creative industries in these contexts.
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1. creative networks

Creative computing is being creative with a computer/network, not being creative on a computer/network.
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2. multiliteracy

Creative computing requires computer and network literacy. This literacy is analogous to, and as significant as print literacy
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3. software

Computer literacy is not the same as knowing how to use professional software.
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4. outside the network

Network literacy is not the same as knowing how to Google.
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5. inside the network

Network literacy is the ability to engage with and represent yourself within the network.
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6. multiliteracy

Computer literacy is synonymous with network literacy.
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7. responsibility

This literacy is demonstrated in the responsible use of computers which understands that the network includes social, ideological, legal, political, ethical and ecological contexts.
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8. HCI

Computer literacy requires basic understanding of the principles of human-computer interaction.
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9. knowledge transfer

This literacy is demonstrated in the ability to transfer knowledge between computing environments.
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10. doing

These literacies are learnt by doing.
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11. praxis

Breaking, gleaning and assembling is a theory of praxis for these literacies.
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12. learning

Learning happens when things work, different learning occurs when things don