Do people call you for computer help? Let's make out a way to make them autonomous.
A report from the Danish National IT and Telecom Agency shows that the digitally literate have not acquired most of their skills through formal training. Rather, they developed their skills themselves. Some were curious and playful, some needed the skill and developed it. Second comes help by family, friends or colleagues.
Though I am by no means at the level of the average rebooter, friends often ask for help. When they are to go just a bit outside their normal "sphere" in e.g. Word or Excel, they feel helpless. I don't. I look it up in the Help section or on the internet. It's fast and it works.
I would not just like to help my friends, I'd like to help the myriad of people who feel helpless in front of the computer. And I would like to help them by empowering them so that they feel secure to go find a way themselves. In the help section, on the internet, whatever. That would be so much more helpful than giving tips once in a while.
One possibility is to have a workshop. I would bring a few friends, who are somewhat digitally literate but not digitally autonomous. In the workshop, we would find a way to empower them.
If a workshop got into the program, I will cross my fingers for the 26th. I stupidly managed to get myself booked for something else on the 25th...
