Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!
Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows.
I think the phrase 'computer-literate' is an evil phrase. You don't have to be 'automobile-literate' to get along in this world. You don't have to be 'telephone-literate.' Why should you have to be 'computer-literate'?
We have an obligation to figure out how to help people cope with the rapidly changing nature of technology.
The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me.
We should leave this archaic, developing world mentality behind. If you want to be a developed country, you have to learn to cope with the media.
As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.
People who are digital native, they want to have real-time performance feedback. They want to understand where they are, what might happen, what their future is. And they want to understand that quickly in a very direct conversation.
Access to the Internet is an essential tool for equipping students with 21st century skills.
