computer literacy (Score 1)

I suspect that this is not for the reason that other people are mentioning. My sister just came back from school and I checked that application log I had put on her computer last time she returned and insisted I do lots of work on it. That log showed that she had booted it twice in the past year. Both times, the computer was on for less than a half hour.

I suspect that the reason for the free ipods was to motivate students to both turn on and use their computers, instead of letting them sit in boxes for the next 4 years.

There is peer pressure here.