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From:         Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject:      Computer literacy requirments in the United States and Canada
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 09:19:31 CDT
From: Tony Mitchell <tmitchel@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of <CTI-L@irlearn.bitnet>
Subject: Computer literacy requirments in the United States and Canada


During the past few months, we have been compiling a list of computer literacy
requirements in the United States and Canada.  This list includes both
requirements mandated by the various states and by various universities and
colleges.  The following is the third time we have submitted this to various
listservs.  A preliminary version is scheduled for publication in the
_Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Southeastern Small College Computing
Conference_, Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tennessee (_Journal of
Computing in Small Colleges_).

We would be interested in knowing if there are any corrections or additions
that need to be made to this list.  Please send that information directly to me
(Tony Mitchell).  On behalf of my partner, we thank everyone for their help.

Marcin Paprzycki
Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas of the Permian Basin
Odessa, TX 79762
m_paprzycki@utpb.pb.utexas.edu

Tony Mitchell
Department of Chemistry (M-S 372)
St. Cloud State University
720 Fourth Avenue South
St. Cloud, Minnesota 56301-4498
tmitchel@tigger.stcloud.msus.edu


TEACHING NEW TECHNOLOGIES:  DEVELOPING A COMPUTER LITERACY COURSE FOR
PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS

SURVEY RESULTS

     Kentucky, Indiana, South Dakota, and Texas, have a computer literacy
requirement which can be met by completing a basic computer course.  Students
in Kentucky must also take a computer literacy test.  Indiana students may test
out the computer literacy course if they already have the skill.  In South
Dakota, elementary and special education majors take a stand-alone course while
secondary majors take another course in which computer literacy is part of the
curriculum.

     California has a requirement which is met by a series of competencies.
North Carolina has also stated that teachers should have the ability to use
computers in instructional settings but has not clearly defined how that
ability is achieved.  The state of Virginia, while not having a computer
literacy requirement, does suggest that students should be computer literate,.
The state of Texas also requires that students take a one semester computer
literacy course while in junior high school and one year of computer science if
they are in the advanced high school curriculum.

     Alabama, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, and
Ohio do not have any type of computer literacy requirement.  Massachusetts does
not have a requirement but the city of Lowell expects teachers in its schools
to be computer literate.  The Lakewood City School District (Ohio) requires
that its middle school students take a computer course.  Bowling Green State
University (Ohio) has a course requirement for Elementary Education majors.
Miami University (Ohio) requires pre-service teacher training students to take
one of five courses as part of their preparation.  The College of Education at
Ohio State University requires that students in its program take at least one
course in computer applications.  Most of these students take a course entitled
"Computer Applications in Education".  This course covers everything from word
processing to the use of INTERNET and is done in a project-based approach.

     The College of Education at the University of Iowa offers a one semester
hour course that makes the assumption that you know nothing.  Science Education
majors at Iowa take a series of methods courses which incorporate the use of
word processors, spread sheets, and databases.  The University of Georgia has a
computer requirement for students seeking secondary certification but not for
elementary or middle school certification.  Students seeking certification
through the University of Alberta can take one of two courses (one in the
Faculty of Education on computer literacy, the other in the Faculty of Science
dealing with microcomputers) for certification.  Students at St. Thomas
University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, also have a course which can
be used to develop computer literacy.  The College of Education at the
Universtiy of Central Florida also requires that their students have some
degree of computer literacy.

     Students entering the school library media specialist program at SUNY -
Geneseo are required to take at least one graduate level computer course.
Students earning a Master's Degree in Instructional Systems at the University
of Central Florida are required to take at least four computer courses (a basic
computer course, one dealing with CAI, one dealing with IVD, and a fourth
dealing with on-line systems).  Students seeking an Educational Leadership
Master's Degree at UCF are required to be technologically literate.


Tony Mitchell
Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry
St. Cloud State University
720 Fourth Avenue South
St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498

INTERNET:       tmitchel@tigger.stcloud.msus.edu

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