Most importantly, the presence of computers in the classroom send a signal to parents that this school is with it. The school may not be as with it as parents hope, however, if technology literacy is limited to such end-user activities. The purpose of real computer literacy is to enable young people to develop their own creative and critical capacities in relating to technology, not to train them to be competent machine operators. As parents, educators, conscientious citizens, and responsible business people we need to finds ways to realize the socially positive potential of computer technology and the internet. The information age is also the consciousness age.
Communications technology brings opportunities and choices.
To make choices we must be conscious of what we are doing, beginning with what we call 'technology'. Since everyone is so interested in computer literacy, however, maybe mentioning critical thinking will have more weight in this context. The public education system is designed to produce passive consumers and voters since it has not been consciously updated to produce critical thinkers. In early childhood and elementary school, at least through the sixth grade, focus on developing the child's own inner powers, not exploiting external machine power, so that the capacity for lifelong fresh perspectives and bold innovation is cultivated. Infuse the study of ethics and responsibility into every technology-training program offered in school so that students will learn to use technology for the benefit of humanity.