{"id":19365,"date":"2024-06-14T20:32:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T19:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=19365"},"modified":"2024-06-15T20:32:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T19:32:21","slug":"re-big-tech-digital-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/re-big-tech-digital-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Big Tech & Digital literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I just saw What is Digital Literacy? A guest blog from Andy McLaughlin, University of Aberdeen \u2013 DigiLearn<\/a> and a pointer to the discussion on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But what do we do there – if we go open source or other methods are we giving our young people the skills to enter the workplace .<\/p>\nIan Gibson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>Ian<\/a> and <\/a>John<\/a>, I’d love to hear your take on the idea that Big Tech’s “efficiency agenda” has been the biggest hindrance to digital skill development.<\/p>\nAndy McLaughlin<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There is a lot of interesting ideas popping up in the conversation. I joined in, although I don’t really have a clear idea as to where I stand. Quite quickly I reached LinkedIn’s maximum character limit, so though I’d post here and link in there, POSSE<\/a> style. Here are the rather ragged<\/em> thoughts I wanted to post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course in Scotland we have access to an Open Source product in the form of WordPress \ud83d\ude09 But I doubt there is much awareness of Open Source generally among my colleagues. As a primary teacher, I need to get my head round hundreds of experiences and outcomes, leaving little time for the reading, never mind the thinking needed in this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open Source is involved in many work places. Some even owned by ‘Big Tech’. Unfortunately Open Source and open technologies (RSS for example) do not have an army of paid and unpaid evangelists in the same way as ‘Big Tech’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not suggesting we should abandon Big Tech, but we should be able to think about the implication<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recently quoted this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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warning parents that although they think they are giving their children access to the internet, they are really giving the internet access to their children.<\/p>\nBBC World Service – The Documentary Podcast, Assignment: Ireland\u2019s phone-free town<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Could we replace parents by educators, children by pupils and internet by ‘Big Tech’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not sure I fully grok Big Tech’s “efficiency agenda” but to my mind it might be jumping into using tech too far from the base metal? Just a few (20) years ago, I’d start teaching pupils some basic text editing, a wee bit about the difference between bitmap and vector image software before moving on to more complex tools. I think I’d rather see a pupil ‘misusing’ powerPoint or Keynote to make their own creative images than cycling through possibilities in a more sophisticated tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am also open to the idea that a bit of friction in your toolkit might mean to spending a bit more time thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A reply to Andy McLaughlin and Ian Gibson around Big Tech in education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/@johnjohnston\/112616641108775889"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[953,6],"tags":[1496,740,102,40],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-posse","7":"category-wwwd","8":"tag-bigtech","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-opensource","11":"tag-technology","12":"kind-article","14":"h-entry","15":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-52l","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19365"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19369,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19365\/revisions\/19369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19365"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=19365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}