Grandmas and Digital Literacy – Brooke Wagner

An excerpt about digital literacy and being a realtor with my grandma:

“I was in real estate when I got my first computer and it cost me 35 hundred dollars.  I can’t remember what year that was, like 1990, something like that.  And it was important for my job, to have that.”

“Did you have to teach yourself how to use it?”

“I took a class at Chico State that was not helpful.  The teacher would tell you to do something and if you didn’t catch up she would come and correct it.  She wouldn’t tell you how to do it.  So she wasn’t a very good teacher.  And that’s the only- And the rest of it I just learned myself.”

“How did you use it in your job?”

“Oh gosh…I didn’t use it for writing contracts.  I used it for the listings, putting the listings through to multiple listing.  That kind of thing.  Now you write your contracts on it and everything.  Everything is done with the computer now.  But in my time with real estate it was more people to people and realtors worked with realtors.  Today realtors don’t even talk to each other; they just email each other, which I find very distracting.”