Cars change in its use and function overtime. This can be said for technology also. Overtime, new forms of technology are created, in order to ease physical and social stresses that exist in peoples’ daily lives. As a result, this means that technology companies are pressured by people and society in creating the next new innovations. But overtime, this means that people are forced to keep up with the knowledge and skills of being able to successfully operate new and future pieces of technology. This results in a group of people who are not able to keep up with the latest technology trend to be left behind, while becoming technologically-deficient. This results in a Digital divide.
Although Digital divides exist in the community among the rich, poor, technologically sufficient and deficient, I feel that there is a practical solution that will help to lessen the existing Digital divide. The idea of “Grassroots organizing,” people and businesses in the local community can unite as one in helping each other to learn more about the benefits that current and future technology has to offer. This is possible through a variety of computer classes that are publicly offered at schools, libraries and community centers in the community. Not only will the computer classes in the community help to offer people in the community to help each other, increased socialization among members will help to promote a strong sense of community unity and pride, in which it can help to establish and maintain strong community cohesion.
Computer classes can be offered on a weekly or monthly basis, in order to encourage people in the community to learn how to use a computer and promote continuity in learning more about technological revolutions overtime. In tailoring the computer lessons to be fun, educational and informative than boring and verbatim, people in the community are probably more likely to continually attend computer classes and view computers and technology in a whole new way.
Teaching the basics of reading and writing can be done with computers that are programmed with reading, writing and speaking programs. As a result, computers can be used to visually and verbally teach people how to read, write and speak a basic language. But, before individuals are able to use and learn more about the personal benefits that computers can offer, they need to learn the basic of using a computer and the true purposes and reasons that computers exist.
1 comment:
I totally agree with your idea. I agree because if we can teach the people who are lagging behind how to keep up and understand the technology loop then maybe their wouldn't be a digital division. I think that with all the tax that people are paying in this state on everything, they should take those tax dollars and invest them into computer help programs/classes for the community.A community that learns how to work the cyber-world won't be left behind.
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