Digital Edutainment: Atwater Digital Literacy Project
http://media.atwaterlibrary.ca/
Tracey Lindeman in The Montreal Mirror, July 19-25, 2007.
Give a kid a video camera and they’ll fiddle around with the buttons, but teach a kid how to make movies and they’ll be feverishly posting to YouTube in no time—or at least that’s the idea behind the Atwater Library’s Digital Literacy Project.
The project aims to put technology in the hands of low-income youth from surrounding communities by working with the needs of organizations and schools in Pointe St-Charles, St-Henri, Little Burgundy and NDG.
“There’s not a lot of opportunity for people to learn creative technology if they don’t have access to it,” says project coordinator Miriam Verburg. “This is a community that is terribly under-resourced and the more people can do to create resources, the better.”
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