Computers are used in school for many applications such as writing papers or
searching the Internet for information. Computer skills are also subject being
specifically taught in many schools, especially from adolescence onward- when
the ability to make abstractions forms. One problematic element of many (thought
not all) ???computer literacy??? or computer education programs is that they may
resort too heavily on rote memorization.
The primary factor preventing such functionally computer illiterate users from
self-educating may simply be fear of losing data through doing the ???wrong
thing??? or lack of motivation; in any case, more technically oriented friends
and relatives often find themselves pressed into service or