Computer Literacy: Necessity or Buzzword?

Information Technology and Libraries

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 100-104

  Childers, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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EID: 0142104194     PISSN: 07309295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (20)

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2. Bob Carlson, Angela Burgess, and Christine Miller, Time-line of Computing History, 1996. Accessed Jan. 5, 2003, www.computer.org/computer/timeline/timeline.pdf.
3. Donald Norman, "Worsening the Knowledge Gap," in Computer Culture (New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1984): 222.
4. Norman, "Worsening the Knowledge Gap," 222-29.
5. Howard Besser, "Education As Marketplace," in Computers in Education (Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Pr., 1993): 63.
6. Ibid., 65.
7. Ibid., 66.
8. Alfred Bork, "Technology in Education: A Historical Perspective," in Computers in Education (Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Pr., 1993): 76.
9. Ibid., 77.
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19. Hess, "Computer Literacy," 213.
20. Krissof and Konrad, "Computer Training for Staff and Patrons." 32.