Technology Illiteracy

The Program for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) has released the results of their latest wide-scale study, and they aren’t good.  Full results can be read here, but the breakdown is that besides the US’s usual below-average global performance in math and literacy, we are now scoring last in technological literacy as well.  This is surprising (and worrying) given the predominance of technology in American life and increasingly in American schools.  Could technological literacy be the newest domain added to standardized testing?