What is Computer Literacy, and What is Its Place in Liberal Education?

Peter Lyman

Liberal Education, Summer 1995, p. 4-15

The premise of this article is that liberal education is incomplete if it does not prepare educated people to address the presence of technology, and the information products of technology, in an informed and critical way. After a general overview of information and communication, the article goes into more detail on the differences between print and computer information, understanding knowledge, and the types of formats used in computers. It concludes that computer literacy has more to do with arts and aesthetic education than with computers.

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