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Last week at Worldchanging<\/a>,
\n
\nAlex Steffen<\/a>
\n
\nposted<\/a> a<\/a>
\nfew<\/a>
\n
\nlinks<\/a> to
\n
\nInterConnection<\/a>, an organization actively<\/i> improving technology
\naccess.  By no means am I an access expert.  I am, nevertheless,
\nfamiliar with some of the commonplace arguments: if we (teachers\/scholars)
\nprivilege particular forms of knowing and performing, we must take stock of the
\nfactors affecting widespread, democratic access to the apparatuses\/devices that
\nmake such forms of knowing and performing possible.  Put on the
\nbrakes…tap them gently.  Or abandon.  Give it the ol’ Luddite
\nhammer. Drive it off a cliff.  Without being curt, this is, more or less, a
\nusual way of taking up questions of access.  <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, because access pre-conditions everything we might do with
\ntechnologies and particularly electronic devices (no access means no next step, right?  Anybody have a pen to lend?) access rationale often curb
\nwhatever might follow.  And that’s a problem.  I can’t think of anyone
\nwho would say we should *not* be cognizant of access issues, but I can think of
\narguments I’ve heard that until access is corrected, we must withstand pushing
\ntechnology’s ends, exploring limits, developing pedagogies around them, etc. 
\nI tend to disagree with the || pause || model for addressing access limitations. 
\nFor this reason, I’m always watching (passive, huh?) for act<\/i>ual practical
\nchange–organized resolution–toward correcting the distribution of, access to
\nand training toward uses of electronic technology.  Too often, I think I
\nstop short (in our interchanges on access) of seriously taking up what must
\nhappen to change who gets to use computers and how such uses are prefigured by
\nmaterial privilege.  But InterConnection seems to be doing something about
\nit–a good enough reason for me to circulate links to them.  <\/p>\n

From
\n
\nanother entry<\/a> at Worldchanging, this
\n
\nlink<\/a> to community-centered sites\/projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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