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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.
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Emergent Computer Literacy Routledge Research in Education 1. Learning Communities in Education Edited by John Retallick, Barry Cocklin and Kennece Coombe 9. Spatial Theories of Education Policy and Geography Matters Edited by Kalervo N. Gulson and Colin Symes 2. Teachers and the State International Perspectives Mike Bottery and Nigel Wright 10. Balancing Dilemmas in Assessment and Learning in Contemporary Education Edited by Anton Havnes and Liz McDowell 3. Education and Psychology in Interaction Working with Uncertainty in Inter-Connected Fields Brahm Norwich 4. Education, Social Justice and Inter-Agency Working Joined up or Fractured Policy? Sheila Riddell and Lyn Tett 5. Markets for Schooling An Economic Analysis Nick Adnett and Peter Davies 6. The Future of Physical Education Building a New Pedagogy Edited by Anthony Laker 11. Policy Discourses, Gender, and Education Constructing Women’s Status Elizabeth J. Allan 12. Improving Teacher Education through Action Research Edited by Ming-Fai Hui and David L. Grossman 13. The Politics of Structural Education Reform Keith A. Nitta 7. Migration, Education and Change Edited by Sigrid Luchtenberg 14. Political Approaches to Educational Administration and Leadership Edited by Eugenie A. Samier with Adam G. Stanley 8. Manufacturing Citizenship Education and Nationalism in Europe, South Asia and China Edited by Véronique Bénéï 15. Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University Edited by Joyce E. Canaan and Wesley Shumar 16. Postmodern Picturebooks Play, Parody, and Self-Referentiality Edited by Lawrence R. Sipe and Sylvia Pantaleo 17. Play, Creativity and Digital Cultures Edited By Rebekah Willet, Muriel Robinson and Jackie Marsh 18. Education and Neoliberal Globalization Carlos Alberto Torres 19. Tracking Adult Literacy and Numeracy Skills Findings in Longitudinal Research Edited by Stephen Reder and John Bynner 20. Emergent Computer Literacy A Developmental Perspective Helen Mele Robinson Emergent Computer Literacy A Developmental Perspective Helen Mele Robinson New York London First published 2009 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2009 Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Robinson, Helen Mele. Emergent computer literacy : a developmental perspective / by Helen Mele Robinson. p.