Intel: "Anne Davis remembers how she reacted the first time she saw a weblog being used in the classroom." [Scripting News]
I have been talking with a client about the state of literacy on PEI. 42% of Islanders have at least great difficulty in reading. 17% cannot read at all. Telling them to go back to school will not work - one of the reasons they find reading such a challenge is that they did not respond well to classic instruction. School is the place of their greatest humiliation. They do not want to return there is any form.
We are searching for a method to inspire poor adult readers that does not seem like school. What kind of community could we build and around what kind of activity?
My aha when reading the post above is that maybe a blogging community might have a chance. If what was on offer was to learn how to use a tool that would connect them to the net and that would enable them to to help others who shared their challenge. In Blogging might we not have the beginnings of a web AA for literacy?
To help people give up drinking,AA pairs you with another alcoholic who will not judge you. Being judgemental is a change blocker. My intuition tells me that joining the net is a powerful incentive. Working to learn to blog and hence to read and write, with a group of peers seems to offer the optimal incentive. Any thoughts out there?
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