Mandating Computer Literacy

Order a hoagie at WaWa using the touch screen, withdraw $20.00 from an automated teller machine (ATM), or verify the final grade your instructor reports at Community College of Philadelphia and you have used a computer. All of these tasks and countless others require the use of a computer. Computer usage permeates many aspects of our daily existence. An introductory course in computers, or demonstration of computer literacy by means of a skills assessment test, should be required of all incoming students at Community College of Philadelphia because computers have become an integral part of…