Third , teachers must integrate these technological skills into particular curriculum areas. In short, there is a very long entrance ramp onto the information-technology highway, and the tolls are expensive. This begs the question of motivation. The traditional answer resides in the mechanical advantage to be gained from computer technology. Computers offer a mechanical advantage that allows us to edit and print text, sort information, manipulate numbers, exchange written messages, and in some instances, locate information much more quickly and efficiently than we could do so using other means.
Mechanical advantage is a fine thing.
It has transformed the human experience. Such advantage provides sufficient motivation to prompt engineers, statisticians, and their like to absorb the high costs of developing computer fluency. No, it is not. Hence, the hue and cry. The perception problem For the foreseeable future, mechanical advantage will be an insufficient motivation for teachers and schools to absorb the high costs of developing techno-literacy.