"Literacy" to me means the skills necessary to function as
an adult in our society. The original term comes from
literature, but now can be applied to reading, writing,
speaking and participating in a democratic society.
Applying this to "computers" leads to the following
definition:
Having the computer skills necessary to function as an
adult in our society.
I know this doesn't help much, but I believe it's an
important starting point for any discussion of computer
literarcy.
Now, on to the bigger question: what do we expect adults to
be able to do with computers/technology in order to be a
productive member of our society?
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Andrew Topper
topperan@pilot.msu.edu
http://www.educ.msu.edu/homepages/topper