Basic Computer Literacy Links

Coronado computer lab

Coronado Junior High multi-media computer teacher Sandra Pardo (standing) explains basic usage of the mouse and cursor to Landon Woods (left) and Junior Literacy Council President Melissa Rau while JL

Cariboo-Chilcotin workers learn necessary computer literacy skills

Seventy workers in the Cariboo Chillcotin are heading back to the classroom to learn computer technology.

Literacy initiative has new home downtown

GLOVERSVILLE - The adult students who come to the Gloversville Literacy Zone have very different stories to tell, but a renewed sense of hope for the future is the common thread running through all of them.

ProLiteracy Urges President Obama to Remember Adults at Lowest Level of Literacy

In his State of the Union speech, the President omitted mention of the more than 30 million American adults who function at the lowest levels of literacy, who struggle to fill out job applications or take drivers exams, and who need basic education and literacy skills before they can pass a high school equivalency exam or enroll in post-secondary institutions. ...

Resurrect computer science – but don't kill off ICT

Teaching children how to write programs and develop applications is admirable, but digital literacy isn't just about that Michael Gove recently labelled the current provision of ICT in English schools as "dull' and argued, schools should have the freedom to teach computer science. The education secretary's speech came after a Royal Society report which mentioned that computing science is seen as ...