Equip students with critical skills including keyboarding, word processing, digital citizenship, and online safety, as well as media and information literacy skills.
While it is true that younger people can usually learn how to use computers and computer programs more easily than older people, teenagers can still benefit from taking a computer class in high school.
Computer science job growth will explode in the next decade, but few U.S. students are studying computer science in high school. In most states, college-bound students have little incentive to take the class because of the way it is credited.
Equip students with critical skills including keyboarding, word processing, digital citizenship, and online safety, as well as media and information literacy skills.
While it is true that younger people can usually learn how to use computers and computer programs more easily than older people, teenagers can still benefit from taking a computer class in high school.
Computer science job growth will explode in the next decade, but few U.S. students are studying computer science in high school. In most states, college-bound students have little incentive to take the class because of the way it is credited.