Why Computer Literacy is Key to Winning the 21st Century
Let’s not make ourselves obsolete …
“Upending our notions of what it means to interface with computers could help democratize the biggest engine of wealth since the Industrial Revolution.”
A 2014 Mother Jones‘ article from explores the challenges faced by communities nationwide, as funds for computational literacy education fail to keep up with a changing society and individual needs.
“[Even] as the Department of Labor predicts the nation will add 1.2 million new computer-science-related jobs by 2022, we’re graduating proportionately fewer computer science majors than we did in the 1980s, and the number of students signing up for Advanced Placement computer science has flatlined.”
Grace Hopper led the team that developed the UNIVAC, the first commercial computer. Smithsonian Institution
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