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Show By DA TC employee at NBEA confab i 'Computer Boot Camp' presented I "Computer Boot Camp" was a presentation made by Kevin Cumm- ings, business instructor at the Davis Applied Technology Center, to the National Business Education Association at its recent convention r : 1 in Nashville, Tenn. Over 2,000 business educators attended the annual an-nual convention. Cummings told his fellow educators that students were traditionally tradi-tionally taught specific computer skills such as keyboarding. However, computer information now changes so rapidly that students need to be taught to be problem solvers, or their information informa-tion will be obsolete as technology rapidly changes. "Students cannot be taught all there is to know about computers or software, but they can be taught to have lifelong learning skills and to continue to improve those skills and make necessary adaptations," Cummings stated. The computer is a tool that is now in all industries and businesses. busi-nesses. Teachers need to give instruction in-struction in computer application as it applies to job preparation, Cummings Cumm-ings continued. This type of instruction instruc-tion is offered at the Davis Applied Technology Center. Cummings has taught at the DATC for two years. He has authored au-thored several popular MS-DOS tutorials which are distributed internationally. in-ternationally. He has also had experience expe-rience working as a computer contract con-tract consultant. Kevin Cummings, business instructor at the Davis Applied Technology Center, assists a student at the Kaysville campus. Cummings recently returned from addressing National Business Education Association convention in Nashville, Tenn. |