October 27th, 2009
the trend toward computerized patient education is advancing, yet we also are aware of the literacy probem in the U.S. how can we reconcile the use of possibly intimidating computer technology with the need to reach low-literate people?
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By utilizing websites that work on specific skills that help boost the literacy problem. My school district uses http://www.compasslearning.com. You can also find websites that works on beginning blends and rhyming words and everything else. Basically, the student’s of today are used to watching tv for long hours, so if you can find a website or computer program, that can get them hooked, go for it.
The technology can be separated from the literacy component initially. For example, people can be taught to operate a computer to play solitaire……that builds confidence that a person can learn the techie stuff.
There must be wide-spread, no-cost, no-criticism help available in both the technology and literacy skills. And information access needs to be inexpensive.
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