Service Learning Complete... and no work done...

So the project flopped, we had completed the orientation(although I had missed two of the four meetings) and ended up doing nothing beyond creating a lesson plan.

Well, might as well sum up my experience so far.

So, at first I had thought the gap that needed filling was one of language barriers, in a more literal sense as the barrier itself was because the individuals were unable to read.

I then learned that I would be teaching a different group of people, with emphasis on technology rather the literacy.

And Finally I learned that the group I was supposed to be teaching was a group that had wanted to obtain technical skills and proficiency in simple WYSIWYG programs so that they would qualify for a position at George Brown. 

This can to me as a mild shock as I've been using MS Office, for as long as I remember without any need for any training.  When I had initially learned of the digital divide I had pictured an old generation that simply refused to use newer technologies.  But when I start to compare people who can learn things by simply playing around with them and people who require lessons to learn from I think that the digital divide is a problem of learning ability rather then accessibility.  Well for Toronto anyway.

In the case of illiterate people, they are most likely still exposed to a large variety of technologies out there.  But because they either have a hard time learning or simply were unable to learn they ended up being on the other side of the digital divide.

In the case for literate people, the problem seems to be in the people's inability to search for answers.  For example, search engines such as google allow users to learn a lot of things.  If you want to know how to do a specific task with MS Word, just google it, if you want to know how to open your control panel, just google it, and if you want to know how to google.... well google it?

For literate people it shouldn't be too hard to find the basic functionalities of a search engine like google.  And for those that are burdened with the problem of not know what google is... well you have my pity.

This ends my rantings, hope you enjoyed them.
PS, you probably wasted about 30 minutes of your life reading this if you started from the first post.