Taking “computer literacy” literally
- 1 May 1987
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 30 (5), 366-374
- https://doi.org/10.1145/22899.22901
Abstract
Computer literacy implies an analogy between computer-related skills and linguistic literacy that has not been seriously explored. Recent studies of linguistic literacy can illuminate the definition of computer literacy and can suggest new ways of teaching it.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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