1. “RE-PRESENTING” THE WORLD
THROUGH TECHNOLOGY.
Digital literacy practices in cross-cultural
contexts

2. “Acquiring literacy does not
involve memorising
sentences, words or syllables
… but rather an attitude of
creation and re-creation, a
self-transformation producing
a stance of intervention in
one's context."
Paulo Freire, Education: The Practice of
Freedom (1973)

3. Nicaragua 2012 | Oral history project (ongoing)

4. Steps, missteps and experimentation
FIRST STEPS

5. LEARNING FROM YOUTH
• 2001 Buffalo, New
York
– Urban
– Low income
– Little access to tech
• Technology as
novelty

6. SIX YEARS LATER,WHO IS IN CHARGE?
• Freestyle is not
necessarily the best
• Finding my voice as
teacher/learner

7. Nicaragua
New York
FURTHER ON DOWN THE
ROAD

9. BORDER CROSSING
• The ability of
technology to bridge
cultural differences
• Teaching and
learning together
• Technology as
embedded (for 1st
world participants)

16. The 2011 4-H Career Explorations digital storytelling workshop

17. Using technology in solidarity
MY WORDS, MY WORLD

18. Buffalo, 2001

19. La Hermandad, Matagalpa
Nicaragua 2012

20. CONTACT
• Paul Treadwell
• pt36@cornell.edu
• @ptreadwell
• http://www.paultreadwell.com

21. CURRICULUM RESOURCES
• http://www.evc.org/
• http://global-action.org/