Roberto Lofaro somewhere on Earth (61)

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#rethinking #induction #training and #continued #professional #education Good news: they assume that their customers have a minimum level of literacy Bad news: they think that anything beyond finger-based "numeracy" is not to be expected Consideration: years ago, while reading a book on dying languages, it was described one whose speakers did not have our highly-urbanized sense of comm...More#rethinking #induction #training and #continued #professional #education

Good news: they assume that their customers have a minimum level of literacy
Bad news: they think that anything beyond finger-based "numeracy" is not to be expected

Consideration: years ago, while reading a book on dying languages, it was described one whose speakers did not have our highly-urbanized sense of community, and where the numbers were... One, two, many

In our society, basic survival skills (e.g. reading a timetable and combining alternatives) require something more than "finger numeracy", if you want to avoid to be at the mercy of those with real (or pretended) numeracy

A catch: while we usually have a more or less clear understanding of what we need to routinely know and use in other domains, basic everyday life (to say nothing about business plans) is made unnecessarily miserable due to the lack of those skills

Incidentally: I had just to read Italian newspapers talking about the alchemy of the new electoral law to understand how basic set operators that I learned (it was an experiment) in elementary school are unknown to many ("analfabeti di ritorno": people who, while having maybe even a university degree, due to lack of use lose basic literacy or numeracy skills)

I remember being paid in the past just to write a 1-page business letter, but I think that our increased reliance on "visual" information (icons, etc) is probably adding one item to the "induction training": basic literacy and numeracy skills- also to enable access to further training resources

We keep talking and writing about the "digital divide", but we keep taking for granted that the "knowledge divide" is solved- while instead it is even worsened if you remove the digital divide, as the many left willingly ignorant will become "spinning tools" for the few that will mislead them...

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