Computer Literacy for Teachers

This book -- together with BASIC for Teachers -- is designed to promote computer literacy within the teaching profession. Besag and Levine believe that computer education should be taken out of the home (where only a privileged few have access to a computer) and put into schools so that each child has the opportunity to work with computers. To make this possible, teachers themselves must become computer literate. In addition to learning a computer language, teachers should become computer literate in terms of a wider perspective that includes the history and values of the computer, and information as a source of power. This book provides a concise and readable account of these issues and the possible roles of teachers and education in the new information explosion.