Mastodawn

piegames Apr 12, 2024

Every time I do tech support for my family I get very angry about people who whine about lacking "tech literacy".

90% of the stuff I have to teach them is how to navigate manipulative software and dark patterns. This has nothing to do with tech, but with capitalism. Tech is not complicated, it is just made maximally confusing on purpose to remove agency.

Better tech ed won't fix this.

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J.D. Ray

@piegames, while I get where your perspective is coming from, I don’t agree. Tech literacy is about being able to recognize repeatable patterns and knowing when and where to apply those patterns; recognizing when something has changed and why; and determining whether or not a change is relevant to the context you’re in. Tech literacy is made up of tools that are useful in life, with or without tech.