Technology and Literacy: A Story about the Perils of Not Paying Attention

Abstract

Technological literacy-meaning computer skills and the ability to use computers and other technology to improve learning, productivity and performance-has become as fundamental to a person's ability to navigat through society as traditional skills like reading, writing and arithmetic...In explicit acknowledgment of the challenges facing the education community, on February 15, 1996, President Clinton and Vice President Gore announced the Technology Literacy Challenge envisioning a 21st century where all students are technologically literate. The challenge was put before the nation as a whole, with responsibility...shared by local communities, states, the private sector, educators local communities, parents, the federal government, and others...