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Cultural Aspects of Becoming Technologically Literate

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About three or four years ago, my then teenage son called with great excitement to say that he and a friend had just finished navigating the most incredible corn maze! That telephone call, which today might likely have been a short text message, came at two o’clock in the morning and was totally out of context and disruptive to my sound sleep.

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  1. Dean of Education, State University of New York, Oswego, NY, USA

    Linda Rae Markert

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  1. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

    Moshe Barak

  2. Hofstra University on Long Island, New York, USA

    Michael Hacker

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Markert, L.R. (2011). Cultural Aspects of Becoming Technologically Literate. In: Barak, M., Hacker, M. (eds) Fostering Human Development Through Engineering and Technology Education. International Technology Education Studies, vol 6. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-549-9_11

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