Literacy and technology: Bridging the divide
نویسندگان
چکیده
Let me start with an example, not from my own research, but from that of J. Hillis Miller, a colleague at UC Irvine. Miller (2002) documents the lives of two middle-class white teenagers, Horace, in 1946, and Jimjim, in 2001. Horace, as a post-World War II teen, is totally wrapped up in the lives of books, from Alice and Wonderland to Wuthering Heights to Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground, the grand narratives of which all helped shape his identity. And beyond books alone, Horace’s whole world was immersed in paper, from his mawkish diary to his love letters to his handwritten examinations.
منابع مشابه
Information Literacy and Its Role in Bridging the Digital Divide in Kenyan Institutions of Higher Education and Learning: Survey of the University of Nairobi
The digital age is heavily characterized by the merits of advanced technologies where digital divide is one of the major issues affecting the development of the knowledge geographical society. Due to this development, the innovation of new technology is unfairly utilized by the rich members of society at the expense of poor ones. Quite a lot of research work done in developed and developing cou...
متن کاملComparison of Quadratic Levels of Digital Divide in Terms of Demographic Variables: Case Study of Rafsanjan City
This study aims to investigate the effect of demographic variables on quadratic levels of the digital divide (Van Dijk’s model), including material and physical access, motivational access, digital literacy and skills, and usage. The study population included 600 citizens of Rafsanjan, Iran. Data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire and were analyzed in SPSS. The results showed ...
متن کاملBridging the Cognitive Divide in ICT-Mediated Learning
The digital divide means more than having access to ICTs. It also means that a person has the necessary ICT literacy skills needed to learn and succeed in an ICTmediated learning environment. ICT literacy includes the ability to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, and create information. These skills are regulated by the appropriate cognitive styles, which allows an individual to acquire, proc...
متن کاملBridging the digital divide by increasing computer and cancer literacy: community technology centers for head-start parents and families.
This article describes the establishment of two community technology centers affiliated with Head Start early childhood education programs focused especially on Latino and African American parents of children enrolled in Head Start. A 6-hour course concerned with computer and cancer literacy was presented to 120 parents and other community residents who earned a free, refurbished, Internet-read...
متن کاملIs Ambient Intelligence doomed to fail? Design Guidelines for bridging the Digital Divide in the Ambient Intelligence Society
The aim of this paper is to specify design guidelines for the sustainable development of Ambient Intelligence (AmI). AmI lies at the core of the European research policy for Information Society Technologies (IST) and seeks to empower individuals to improve their capability to participate in society. We want to address the issue of the digital divide in the emerging Ambient Intelligence Society....
متن کامل