Word processors, presentation software, spreadsheets, scanners, quality printers, and more combine to allow the production of the documents that help our society function. We produce web pages that make our ideas and businesses available to the world. With desktop publishing software, we produce school brochures, leaflets, tracts, and yearbooks that rival professionally designed products.
Schools also use computers as tools for the storage and retrieval of information.
Financial software, databases, spreadsheets, administrative software, grading programs, and schedulers all produce a measure of organization and efficiency that has greatly improved our educational capabilities. As a communication tool, the computer has revolutionized the world. We can talk to missionaries, friends, and relatives instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost with the mere tap of a key. Schools also use computers as tools to access the seemingly infinite information resources on the Internet. As a tool, the computer s capabilities are bound only by our knowledge and creativity.