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MCuenca: If You Want Something Done Right….

MCuenca: If You Want Something Done Right….

I can understand Keri Franklin’s initial frustration with Twitter. It’s not an easy thing to be able to access right away almost like the campus wifi but I digress.

It’s through digital literacy sponsorship that Franklin was able to learn the language of Twitter and I think that really highlights how different digital literacy sponsorship is to print based sponsorship. With technology allowing us to be able to connect with people all around the world, the dynamics of the sponsor and the sponsored has changed.

The line has essentially blurred because no longer are we tied down simply to one person to sponsor us in our literacy. Now we have access to a multiple number of people who we can interact via the internet daily that influence us and who we in turn influence as well. Not to mention the various resources like Google, YouTube,  and other sites that offer their own kind of sponsor ship through tutorials, blogs, articles, and so much more. Digital literacy has opened new ways for us to view sponsorship and it’ll be interesting to see how it will keep developing as time goes on.

One of my recent experiences with trying to learn a new digital literacy was trying to solve connectivity issues for my brother’s PS4. He was having problems getting online to play with his friends. This was due to issues with Comcast Xfinity’s DHCP settings which to put it in really brief, simple terms was an issue with the server’s IP address. Despite trying to get help from their customer service, my brother gave up on them and turned to me for help. So both of us looked around Google and other sites to see how others fixed the problem. We utilized the information on the web and eventually came to fix the problem ourselves.

Does digital literacy have a learning curve to it? Yes, but with the right resources, motivation, and sponsorship it can be a powerful tool that is teaching us a new way of learning and solving problems and at the same time helping to educate us through a different lens.

One Reply to “MCuenca: If You Want Something Done Right….”

  1. Digital literacy is fascinating to me because its just such a massive concept. The idea that I can get help on virtually everything though every single person on the plant is crazy. I can read online how to fix my IP address while sitting in my living room in Chico, CA while the guy that made a tutorial is in Kuwait City, Iraq. For me when I have problems I fiddle around for hours googling stuff and trying to fix things on my own as well.

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