When asked what they wanted to be doing in the future, the respondents reported:

"To learn computers and find a job"

"To continue learning especially about computer skills -- need computer skill in this day and age"

"I feel computers are going to be everywhere"

"I plan to go into computer work"

The province of New Brunswick is much concerned that its citizens become linked to the information highway (Brennan, 1997, p. 3). To this end, it has appointed a government minister to be responsible for the Information Highway Secretariat, has mandated that all high school graduates become computer literate, and has funded the development of computer training centres at the community colleges. Computers are not available in the CASPs unless an individual community is willing to provide such resources.

When asked if they could use a computer, nearly three-quarters of the respondents reported that they could not. An analysis of the data on computer use are shown in Table 9 by age groups. About half of the youngest age group reported they could use a computer; this proportion decreased markedly with increasing age. The respondents were next asked whether the computer had any effect on their learning. The results are shown by age in Table 10.