Emergent Computer Literacy

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.

Helen Mele Robinson is Assistant Professor in the Education Department at CUNY, The College of Staten Island.  She has published journal articles in Perspective: The New York Journal of Adult Learning.