Emergent Computer Literacy: A Developmental Perspective

✍ Scribed by Helen Mele Robinson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Series: Routledge Research in Education
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The United States is currently grappling with how to prepare our students to be computer literate citizens in the competitive technological world we live in. Understanding how children develop computer knowledge, and the ways that adults are able to guide their computer learning experiences, is a vital task facing parents and educators. This groundbreaking book is an attempt to fill a gap in current understanding of how we become computer literate and proposes a theory of how computer literacy skills emerge in computer users.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Dedication......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Figures......Page 12
Tables......Page 14
Prologue......Page 16
Acknowledgments......Page 18
1 Introduction......Page 20
2 Review of Related Research and Literature......Page 34
3 Research Study......Page 49
4 Research Findings......Page 69
5 Research Implications......Page 131
6 Supporting Early Computer Literacy Development......Page 149
7 Summary, Issues, and Future Research Needs......Page 170
Epilogue......Page 184
Appendices......Page 186
Bibliography......Page 202
Index......Page 210