Alfred, I would be interested in seeing your paper on recommendations leading to learning for all. Could you post it to DDN, or send me a copy?
I am an attorney in Chicago who has been an "education access advocate" and "mass process life transition services advocate (e.g. college admission and financial aid processing)" since the early 1970's in Washington, D.C., a supporter of "computer literacy" policies and programs in Chicago in early 1980's, and involved in "telecommunications in community development" issues in low income areas of midwest distressed areas since 1997, supporter of Digital Literacy grants program in IL Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity since legislation in 2000, and statewide Illinois Community Technology Consortium/now Coalition for professional development/policy since 2001. As board member of Midwest Technology Access Group, Inc. www.mtag.org we are supporting a consortium-in-formation Digital Literacy Research Consortium, using MTAG's Share Point document sharing services. Led by Dr. Eugene Fregetto, UIC managerial studies and with background in public agency procurement, small business and community enterprise marketing and outcome tracking, we are exploring successful literacy-development activities for youth, adults, seniors in improving quality of life/civic engagement and community enterprises, with special focus on underserved persons, primarily in U.S., but reviewing international measurements of ICT skill acquisition/quality of life impacts. We look to advocate replication of successful models, including in leadership development of Digital Tools for managers/instructors of new and emerging Human Services Computer labs (CTCs) connected to wide Community Improvement (Community Network) projects. Thank you, Layton Olson Layton E. Olson, Esq. Howe & Hutton, Ltd. 20 N. Wacker Dr., Suite 4200 Chicago, IL 60606 312-263-3001 Fax: 312-372-6685 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.howehutton.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alfred Bork Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 4:01 PM To: 'The Digital Divide Network discussion group' Subject: RE: [DDN] Creating the $100 Laptop Who is 'we?' Not me. Learning as practiced today, in both the rich and poor parts of the world, is poor at best, and often nonexistent. Nothing works! For the US, see for example the publications of the National Academy of Sciences in reading, writing, and arithmetic. Or read the almost daily bombardment in the press on the poor quality of learning. For the rest of the world, talk to the billion children who have no schools. Nature seems to have tolerated plenty of failures! If some of you would like to see a draft paper of what I think should happen to lead to learning for all, plese let me know. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alfred -----Original Message----- Taran Rampersad Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 1:59 PM Why not wait for 99 studies of empirical evidence to support what we know already works? Nature doesn't have a plan. It simply doesn't tolerate failures. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
