The FCC announced a plan to create a Digital Literacy Corps to provide the basic technology literacy skills necessary to allow broadband non-adopters to participate online. The effort appears primarily focused on incentivizing digital literacy classes in libraries and schools across the country. The Commission is still contemplating ways to pay for this initiative.
Consider for a minute a couple of the dynamics Web 2.0 brought us, frictionless communication, and instant access to any piece of information, picture, or video from any device 24/7.
With all of this opportunity, comes an increase in the need for responsibility, and ergo discretion.
With all these choices, and the consequences that come with them, we better learn the art of discretion, and figure out how to teach it to young people. Fail that, and we will reap a generation that will be scarred by a billion cuts of bad technology augmented decisions…