Mandating Computer Literacy

Order a hoagie at WaWa using the touch screen, withdraw $20.00 from an automated teller machine (ATM), or verify the final grade your instructor reports at Community College of Philadelphia and you have used a computer. All of these tasks and countless others require the use of a computer. Computer usage permeates many aspects of our daily existence. An introductory course in computers, or demonstration of computer literacy by means of a skills assessment test, should …

…make the decision to learn something new. Computers do not byte! Works Cited Bates, Gary. Computer Literacy Requirement. University of Oklahoma. 17 June 2003. <http://casweb.cas.ou.edu/advising/Complit/> Behavioral Health/Human Services. 10 April 2002. Community College of Philadelphia, 17 June 2003. <http://www.ccp.edu/home/programs/behavioral.html> Computer Competency Courses. 3 April 2001. Florida State University, 17 June 2003. <http://websrv.cs.fsu.edu/academics/compcomp.html>