Why Study Computer Literacy? by Mr. Andrews

For School

To do reports in high school and college (required!). The longer you wait to learn to use a computer the more difficult your school life will be. While you struggle to get the computer to do what you want it to do, the computer literate students have finished the work and have moved on to other work. You will eat their dust! Can you guess who gets the better grades, and later, the better job?

Write the many letters and essays that are required to get into a good college or university. You have to do a good job of it! (That also means being good in English!)

For Your Personal Life

• Do work for clubs & organizations to which you belong.
• Do the money bookkeeping for your family.
• Do Internet searches on things you are interested in.
• Do things for your church.
• Help your own children.
• Create Web Sites for your hobby, family, or interests.
• Make very nice signs and posters.
• Write letters quickly and well.

For Your Business Life

• Create and make presentations to groups, in order to get your ideas and plans accepted by them. This is ABSOLUTELY required in any job in engineering, design, computer, software, and in most highly paid business jobs! This is what PowerPoint is used for!!!
• Organize and run the business.
• Create Web Sites for your business. (Or at least understand the process!)
• Write Reports
• Spread sheet studies “What if we ...” (Excel)
• Extensive communications
• Advertising
• All the accounting (the money matters) (You at least have to understand it!) (Excel)
• Write product documentation that tells ...
  • What is it good for.
  • How do you use it.
  • How does it work.
  • How manufacturing is to build it.
  • How it will be tested.
  • How it will be repaired.

What are some of the jobs or businesses that use a lot of computers? .....

• Doctor’s office
• Vet office
• Lawyer’s office
• Banks and other “Money” types of businesses
• Any store, no matter how small it is.
• Hospitals.
• Machinist
• Auto Mechanic
• Secretary
• Airline pilot
• Police & fire departments
• Librarian
• Engineers and designers of ALL types.
• Artists
• Musicians (A lot of computer processing!)
• Film makers, animators, special effects
• Scientists of ALL kinds.
• A Buyer (A specialist who buys things for a company.)
• Photographers (LA Times is all digital photography; cameras, transmitted, processed, edited, and printed by computers!)
• Writers of every kind, even fiction.
• Newspapers and magazines are all done on computers.

Very nearly every piece of printed material that you see anywhere, anytime, was created on a computer!

Very nearly all good paying or high paying jobs now REQUIRE the ability to use a computer.

Now you know why we are teaching Computer Literacy!

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