eBook creation software

[BSantaMaria]

All:

I agree with Richard and also believe that "technology" is one of the
weapons of colonialism, linguistic/cultural genocide, and worse, one
of the culprits that stole our children and grandchildren from us
elders who cannot communicate with them in our mother languages
instead of in the foreign language of English.

Our descendants are great users of technologies listed by Richard and
it began with radios, TV, satellite communications, and cell phones.
It's true that some of us are using some of these but are selective. I
can still make decisions to choose to use what I want from these (for
example: driving a car, watch TV, have cell ph only for calls, no
texting, etc) for myself, but the choices made by the younger
generation for the last decade have negatively affected
intergenerational social relations in our tribal communities
especially in the area of language use which is a tragedy in many
contexts.

Just a few thoughts by an Apache elder....

Bernadette A. SantaMaria, Member
Culture Advisory Board, White Mountain Apache Tribe


On 1/20/12, Richard Zane Smith <rzs at wildblue.net> wrote:
> so..............
>
>
> every human being should have an iphone
> every human being should have an ebook
> every human being should have a facebook account
> every human being should have an automobile
>
> teyeterih (i don't know)
>
> amidst the celebration of cool tools... is anyone thinking about
> the cost to the earth  and how human minds WILL BE altered by this stuff?
> do we see our children now having "NEEDS" we never even thought about?
> are we getting the languages back at the very risk of ripping away
> the very cultural moorings from which these languages are imbedded?
> cultural paradigms that are the antithesis of such conquest-based
>  extravagance?
>
> will a line ever be drawn? enough is enough? are we addicted to the "new?"
> whatever high tech tool, we hold today will be trashed in 5 years.
> Is this really what our ancestors taught us? where is the balance?
>
> teyeterih
>
> ske;noh
> Richard
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Andrew Cunningham
> <lang.support at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 20 January 2012 05:54, Phillip E Cash Cash
>> <cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > It seems we need a new buzz word to describe the technology needs,
>> > development gap, and cultural/language challenges most communities
>> > find themselves in.  This is because we come back to square one every
>> > time there is a new educational technology up for consideration.  The
>> > idea of a "digital divide" is sort of lame and a bit outmoded these
>> > days but it gets a lot of mileage in the text books.
>>
>> In Australia current terminology is more around digital inclusion and
>> digital exclusion (in the context of civil society, e-Democracy and
>> egovernment) rather than digital divide and has more to do with
>>
>> Although interestingly most recent discussions around factors that
>> cause digital exclusion that are occurring in Australia exclude
>> language as an exclusion factor.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andrew Cunningham
>> Senior Project Manager, Research and Development
>> Vicnet
>> State Library of Victoria
>> Australia
>>
>> andrewc at vicnet.net.au
>> lang.support at gmail.com
>>
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