[Advisors] How do you teach digital literacy -- CIRA forum

[James Van Leeuwen]

I agree Garth.=20

This is the very essence of the challenge facing most of rural Canada, =
where value and wealth creation are still strongly associated with =
manual effort.=20

Recognition of the value of mental effort and the wealth it produces =
tends to be weak at best, and cultures of anti-intellectualism are not =
uncommon.=20

James



On 2013-03-02, at 9:39 PM, Garth Graham <garth.graham@telus.net> wrote:

> On 2013-03-02, at 5:48 PM, James Van Leeuwen wrote:
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>> Developing digital literacy is really just learning how to use a new =
set of tools.=20
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> But a new set of tools is always the product of a difference in =
culture.  So learning how to use them is always an acculturation to a =
different cultural perspective.  Practice occurs always in a particular =
context.
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