#Digital Literacy

[kemetic-dreams]

Anti-literacy laws in many slave states before and during the American Civil War affected slaves, freedmen, and in some cases all people of color. Some laws arose from concerns that literate slaves could forge the documents required to escape to a free state. According to William M. Banks, "Many slaves who learned to write did indeed achieve freedom by this method. The wanted posters for runaways often mentioned whether the escapee could write." Anti-literacy laws also arose from fears of slave insurrection, particularly around the time of abolitionist David Walker's 1829 publication of Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, which openly advocated rebellion, and Nat Turner's Rebellion of 1831.

The United States is the only country known to have had anti-literacy laws.

Significant anti-African laws include:

1829, Georgia: Prohibited teaching Africans to read, punished by fine and imprisonment

1830, Louisiana, North Carolina: passes law punishing anyone teaching Africans to read with fines, imprisonment or floggings 

1832, Alabama and Virginia: Prohibited Europeans from teaching Africans to read or write, punished by fines and floggings

1833, Georgia: Prohibited Africans from working in reading or writing jobs (via an employment law), and prohibited teaching Africans, punished by fines and whippings (via an anti-literacy law)

1847, Missouri: Prohibited assembling or teaching slaves to read or write

Mississippi state law required a white person to serve up to a year in prison as "penalty for teaching a slave to read."

A 19th-century Virginia law specified: "[E]very assemblage of negroes for the purpose of instruction in reading or writing, or in the night time for any purpose, shall be an unlawful assembly. Any justice may issue his warrant to any office or other person, requiring him to enter any place where such assemblage may be, and seize any negro therein; and he, or any other justice, may order such negro to be punished with stripes."

In North Carolina, African people who disobeyed the law were sentenced to whipping while whites received a fine, jail time, or both.

AME Bishop William Henry Heard remembered from his enslaved childhood in Georgia that any slave caught writing "suffered the penalty of having his forefinger cut from his right hand." Other formerly enslaved people had similar memories of disfigurement and severe punishments for reading and writing.

Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee were the only three slave states that did not enact a legal prohibition on educating slaves.

It is estimated that only 5% to 10% of enslaved African Americans became literate, to some degree, before the American Civil War

[antares07]

Laugh,

and the world will laugh with you;

Weep,

and you will weep alone..

[g1rl-int3rupted]

Just found out that the book that’s taken me three months to finish for school has less words then the fanfic I finished in less then a day…..

Priorities I guess ✨🤭

[magz]

Computer & Technology Basics Course for Absolute Beginners

"Learn basic computer and technology skills. This course is for people new to working with computers or people that want to fill in some gaps about their computer knowledge."

Saw this, and thought it useful for basic tech literacy.

Share video for people might need it.

[batcities]

comix for digital literacy :-) made 4 kids but i like them too much to not say they're for adults too

[marmalade-and-daisies]

if anyone reads fanfic and wants to contribute to a literacy studies project, please do this survey!! https://forms.gle/SPCtMmSe3NThwfBs6

[eldritch-bf]

Parents when I was a kid: don’t believe everything you read online.

Parents now that I’m an adult: I read online that 5G is a communist plot by China to send transgender beams into our kids brains and also democrats are harvesting brainjuice from tortured children to gain immortality

[lunion]

For all the shit neurotypical people give about autistic people not being able to read social cues, the internet's levels of media literacy and people's general incapability of reading an isolated event with a specific context behind it without trying to apply universally tells me that a lot more neurotypical are just assuming things out of their ass tham actually knowing what's going on.

It's not hard to read folks, I just beg you to take a second to think about what you just read instead of assimilating like a mindless rpg slime eating food

[musings-of-a-lit-student]

Allegorical Alpines

Allegories are typically used to depict, and represent ideas symbolically not explicitly discussed in the content.

Example: The best example would be MAUS, given the use of a cat and mouse dynamic emphasises the unfair power dynamic, and predatory environment they were in.

Word of the Week

perfidy

Deceitfulness, untrustworthiness; breach of faith or of a promise; betrayal of trust; treachery

Lands of Literature

[wrathsofgrapes]

Social Media, Sousveillance, and the Self (The Three S’s!) REVISED AND BASS BOOSTED

Preface: I posted this as a gaggle of thoughts some months ago, which you can see if you scroll down just a little bit on my blog. These thoughts were decently unorganized and months later, after slow broiling and marinating these thoughts some more, I decided to turn it into a real conjecture of sorts.

Very special thanks + shoutout to my philosophy professor Daniel Rodriguez-Navas for his careful, thoughtful, constructive, and encouraging guidance throughout the development this paper.

Most young people are socially expected to have a form of social media now, and especially expected to have some form of personal information be public. Many find it strange if one does not post photos of themselves online. Most of us, generation Z, are expected and encouraged to contribute to this massive user-curated database, and in exchange, we are able to receive more attention than what was previously fathomable in the form of likes, shares, and comments. This attention is addictive, debilitating, heart-wrenching and hyper-fixated. It has never been possible in human history to access this many people at once, to be heard by this many people and hear this many people. The digital space has never been “natural” - though depending on particular definitions of “natural”, the transhumanist may argue that the digital space is the next step in evolution; an extension of the human realm. But we were not eased into this digital realm, we were thrown, many of us at a very young age, into this realm with a violent and perverted amount of freedom, enticed by information overload and the addiction of attention. The societal over-exposure to the current climate and habits of social media platforms has had not only a detrimental effect on users’ physical health and self esteem, but has also created an uncanny simulacrum of the ways in which we interact and present ourselves with/to others in real life. The incorporation of social media in our everyday lives has solely transformed the ways in which we love, hate, cry and laugh, prioritize - at others and especially ourselves. 

The new product of attention has become a pinnacle of desire; and we pay with sensation, with shock, with beauty and individuality. When these technological experiments first came out, our young, malleable, dissatisfied minds were the first to latch on. Our parents critiqued this, which made the project even more successful. But it is not a phase like our parents said it would be. They caved. All it took was a few years of normalization - advertising, attention, and they too, became hooked. A 2021 Pew research center study found that 91% of US adults aged 30-49 use online platforms, slightly decreasing in ages 50-64 with 83%, and 49% in adults aged 65 and up. We no longer even have an ancient antagonist to complain about “kids these days”. It has become all free and liberated, no shame in this addiction because the algorithms have improved, proved to be impenetrable in its strategy. 

What we now value is increasingly impacted by the digital sphere, riddled with advertisements for particularly desirable lifestyles. With a life revolving so much around the aspect of the digital realm, and with the digital realm being created on the foundation of capital pursuit, value is no longer personal. Life and culture are no longer personal. The personal is no longer personal. Lee Artz, author of “Global Entertainment Media: A Critical Introduction” describes how world culture no longer stems from local cultures, created by people. Instead, TNMCs (TransNational Media Corporations) create a culture based off of the pursuit of production and wealth, skillfully peppered with some features of local culture for the sake of relatability and familiarity, sold under the guise of “cultural diversity”. 

The transaction is subtle - we buy a fix of attention, a sense of connection in exchange for personal information, the more intimate the better. Post a photo of yourself - better if you are wearing less, better if you are doing something vulnerable, intimate, better with more controversy. A 2018 study by Bell, Cassarly and Dunbar examines the extent to which young women aged 18-24 posted self-images that were sexually suggestive and its correlation with the amount of “likes” and online engagement one would receive. The results concluded that this type of positive engagement on sexually suggestive photos encouraged young women to post more of them. As young people have been subject to this reward system for longer and whilst our young minds are still developing, we have a heightened sensitivity to this type of social reward. The oversharing of one’s sexuality and body essentially transfers ownership, or feeling of entitlement to the consumer, who possesses the power of encouraging it, or negatively engaging.

It’s not only sexualization that receives this engagement - the new phenomenon of oversharing personal information on the internet, especially now that less people are choosing to stay anonymous on the internet than ever before, has become essentially a new norm. Simply opening the Tik Tok app will present you with people in their homes, talking to the camera about intimate, vulnerable, and often embarrassing stories in full detail. The fascination with this seemingly raw and unfiltered form of content, or sexualized content, taps into a different type of perversion in the human psyche; this type of content, because it is in a way so humiliatingly honest, welcomes the most brutal responses. Though many love informational oversharing, with netizens commonly expressing that it makes them feel better about themselves, or relieved in its relatability, a 2022 study concluded that informational oversharing stems from anxiety and alienation from society, where people desperately try to find intimacy, attention, and relatability in their vulnerability.  “Better to shock than to bore” - or relevance over irrelevance, has become the subconscious logic. Relevance is emphasized more than ever now, where even “normal” people have a fixation on “staying relevant”, much like a celebrity would traditionally have. The “digital footprint” is no longer about reservation or preservation, it is about sensation and impact. That’s the new age of fame, and it is stupidly easy, stupidly addictive. 

I feel like this newfound addiction to attention and instant gratification has shifted our collective values. We value privacy much less, in favor of attention. Social media platforms have taught us that we can receive a great amount of attention, validation, and discourse just by trading one’s privacy, the value of which has been artificially decreased by TNMCs just as the value of fame/exposure has been artificially increased. 

The strategy of self advertisement is now learned by young adolescents before, or even instead, of the strategies of self preservation and self protection. No real cyber literacy is taught - it is simply learned through experience. Older generations and very young children do not have the years of developmental experience infiltrated by the digital space to garner an awareness of the real-life-to-digital dissonance. The two are not as easily separable to someone naive to the difference of impact they have. The digital space gives one, in a way, the illusion of ultimate privacy, almost like it encourages the exploitation of your deepest vulnerabilities. You can tell your innermost secrets out loud, alone, in the comfort of your own room, and be heard and seen by millions. Accounts of very young children or older people often go viral because their personas online are often either the most vulnerable pure reflection of their reality, or they are presenting themselves in a very obviously curated way, where they naively act like how they think people on the internet should act. These types of accounts are almost always loved by the public in an exploitative or patronizing way, where the humor lies in the fact that they do not act on social media in the way that shows a sense of “getting it”, part of this dreadful post-ironic, terminally blasé attitude that has plagued those with experience-based, shame-based digital literacy. I propose that this attitude is formed out of self protection, or a need to present oneself as somebody who is impenetrable in vulnerability.

The internet is where anything is said mostly without real life consequences - and this is another large aspect of why the digital space is addictive. One gets addicted to the honesty, which coaxes you into delving into and producing opinions that one would not think of producing in real life. Because of this honesty, people often purposefully think of things to critique and reasons to attack. But this is also a product of the oppressive real-life social norms of courtesy and the overbearing expectation of niceness. The digital realm is, in a way, a solace where we can reject that. But that freedom of communication is simply on the other extreme end of the spectrum of healthy communication. The pendulum never stops in the healthy middle. I often like to think of all my social media comments as if they were being said to me, in person, by the people behind these profiles. They usually have photos of themselves publicly posted. They say vile things because I am not real. To them, and funny enough, oftentimes to myself as well, I am just a monkey that is dancing on the circuit board inside their phones, in their pocket, accessible at any time and able to be deleted at any time. I am so beautifully insignificant, so temporary, and yet it inexplicably gives me a sense of a permanent presence - a stable one, that will not fade. I am not immune to the fetishization of fame.

Schlosser identifies self presentation versus self disclosure; self presentation being a goal-oriented, strategic, and curated presentation of the self, with self disclosure being sharing factual information to another about oneself, regardless of its impact on one’s social reputation. She finds that the internet gives affordance for self disclosure due to the option of anonymity, but also discourages disclosure through unfiltered and open audience feedback. Through personal observation, I believe that the issue is more complex, and calls for a more nuanced discussion than whether social platforms promote or discourage presentation or disclosure - because this discussion suggests that there is no blurred line between the curated self and the objective self. Even in a non-social media context, it is hard to differentiate between genuine and performative behavior, since it is so hard for a subject to differentiate and admit to it. With how engrossed most people are within their digital selves, I will argue that it is all presentative - and that even content that feels like disclosure is self presentation. Is there really no motive in disclosure, as Schlosser puts it? 

Maybe disclosure is innocence - a naieveté that is ironically revered and unironically feared. With the internet being an automatic concrete archive of one’s opinions and expression and a machine that almost always guarantees a consequence, there is a saying that has emerged in recent years: “be careful of what you say on the internet”. This is referring to the fear of getting “canceled” for saying something problematic, or to the possibility of publicly embarrassing oneself whether in action, speech or aesthetics. When people have an understanding of this ruthless internet system, everything one says and does on the internet is purposefully curated, with extra care in the desired effect of the content. Even when content is created for the purpose of self-degradation or self embarrassment for humor, it is still careful to not be too vulnerable, or too weird. 

Referring back to my earlier observation of how content from young children or older people who do not necessarily “get” the internet often go viral, I think that maybe this form of simple, naive, innocent and vulnerable content is the only true disclosure that exists on the internet - unintentional disclosure. Unintentional disclosure also can come forth in times where one may try to present a lie to consumers, and are proven false. I believe that this is why these videos and posts go viral - we all truly do love disclosure. We love honesty and vulnerability, proof of humanness and unintentional subjects of endearment. I do believe that my current generation is striving for real human connection, closeness, and earnest communication in this epidemic of loneliness, spearheaded by the cave-like illusion of comfort that technology brings. We’re just scared - I know I am - because who wouldn’t be, as involuntary test subjects for mystifying technologies? 

Altman and Taylor proposed the social penetration theory (SPT), where surface-level relationships can develop into much deeper ones, where the seal of intimacy gets penetrated, in a sense, through the sharing of personal information - self disclosure. The goal within self disclosure is social penetration, which is more present than ever in the context of social media, except social media does not give the affordance of other strategies to gain social penetration - such as a slow, gradual relationship, face-to-face contact, and mutual acknowledgement. Since content creators do not have these other affordances, I will argue that they feel the urge to go to extremes with a performance of self-disclosure, for the main goal of social penetration, creating parasocial relationships. 

The parasocial relationship is the driving force of the use of influencers in modern day advertisement. Simulating intimate, honest relationships is what the content creator strives for, because that is what creates the most engagement and makes for the best product endorsements, encouraged and funded by TNMCs. It is what the consumer also loves to consume, because without the added aspects of social penetration such as a slow, gradual relationship, face-to-face contact, and mutual acknowledgement, the consumer is able to have a fundamentally not whole but idealized version of the curator, where the curator’s personality can seem much more wholesome, specified, honest and relatable than the personality of anyone that the consumer could know in real life. 

The influencer blurs the line between “normal” person and celebrity. Celebrities used to be elusive creatures, where a sighting of them outside of a movie or magazine was considered fascinating - because celebrities used to be untouchable. They were Gods rarely among men and worshiped for their unapproachability. The influencer in the digital age has fundamentally transformed the concept of fame into one based not necessarily on traditional talent, but on social penetration, controversy, and very importantly, attractiveness. Even traditional celebrities are now, in recent years, joining social media platforms to engage with fans in a parasocial way - to show that celebrities are just like us! They eat food, shit it out, and have bad hair in the morning! We have all found out how profitable it is to be human - but not too human - that now, even the Gods have come down to earth to cash in. 

Even if consumers are aware of these dynamics in their media consumption, they will still often choose to engage positively in this system. 54% of young Americans would even become an influencer themselves if given the chance, because of how it is advertised and idealized. The parasocial relationship has created a simulation of what a person should be, due to the lack of affordances for actual human connection whilst simulating a version of human connection that is advertised as better than a real human connection - but I will argue that in reality, digital social penetration, or maybe even the illusion of it, fails to satisfy real social needs, but instead of this dilemma spurring people to seek out in-person connections, the instant and effortless gratification of a digital parasocial relationship makes users simply seek out a surplus of it.

My image, or at least the image I carefully project, has been seen by millions. Millions now have a specific perception of me - two-dimensional and dictated by an altered fraction of my legitimate self, locked in time. But what is the legitimate self? The digital age has created a larger gray area in the concept of “self” and “individual”, widening the hole that capitalism has created, where one is not only a product, but a walking advertisement. We now express and define the self through sousveillance, and often do not know ourselves without it. The self has come to be defined as the density and reaction of digital perception. Sometimes people no longer know who they are after their popularity leaves them. Late stage capitalism, bass-boosted by new technologies, has made individuals to be solely defined by reaction - because reaction is what creates transaction, what creates currency, whether it be a fix of mental gratification or actual money. I cannot think of anyone who would possibly like to admit it, but there is certainly a present attitude of “if you don’t exist online, do you even exist? Why wouldn’t you want to be online?” Why wouldn’t you want to partake in this addictive algorithm, endless scrolling, information overload, stimulation overload, and the promise of attention? You are weird if you don’t.

 With the value of personal information going up, and the value of privacy going down, with people believing that they are so insignificant that their information does not matter - I will refrain from using that as a main talking point. The promotion and investment into the advancement of social technologies almost feels like state-funded propaganda, but I also will not get into that talking point in fears of sounding like a crazed conspiracy theorist. The main issue is how it has shifted our entire social attitude, and has deeply affected the social dynamics of communities and circles in real life. Human connection is strained by image and obsession. It is strained from a disembodiment of the self and the environment. We now have to control our social lives online (transcending location and social boundary) as well as our social lives in real life. Because of how personal one’s social page seems, and how unintimidating and easy it is to contact anyone, there is no secrecy left. And some of the world’s greatest stories revolve around the beauty of secrecy.

This conjecture is not just to say that everybody should return to analog, and that the digital age has not had its glorious moments - but social media tries to convince you that the main purpose of your patronage to their platform is connection, fun, and inspiration, while the purpose is really all capital. And because we, the 21st century, have become test subjects for these new, cruel, untested technologies, there was truly no restriction or boundary on who was deemed able to access essentially this panopticon of positive/negative reinforcement, and content from every dark crevice of the world. This promotion of self exploitation has wedged its way into being a priority for many. Friends become friends and lovers become lovers based on aesthetics, image, and attraction. The curation of a profile is just as important as the curation of the real self. The curation of a profile becomes the self. The line between who one is online and in real life is becoming more and more blurred; people try to mold themselves to act in the way they are able to online. Online, one is free to lust and lie and hate and obsess and love. Online, one can be confident, sexy, loud, carefully vulnerable, relentlessly controversial, smart, beautiful, mysterious, careless, carefree, detached, ethereal and unreal. But maybe humans were not meant to be all of those things, all at once.

Author’s note: If you read to the end of this, thank you, and if you’d like access to the bibliography please PM me! I would have liked to make this longer - there’s so many things I could have gone on and on about. I’d also love to hear any comments or questions or general feedback.

[cryptidize]

Yall are gonna love the site im making. All the links in my Internet Guide have been personally vetted by me, but I am currently lovingly writing descriptions for each site, as well as adding more links. I will also have some info about myself, my art, my commissions, and later- a site dedicated to digital literacy for the common user!!!!!

A whole webbed site all about how to stay safe online, my personal recommendations, knowing your personal tools (like your computer and phone, their Operating Systems, the internet, HTML, and more!), common terms and what to do when you failed step one (like how to reinstall an operating system, backup your files, and clean out any malware you might have) will be made soon because I fucking HATE every site out there already since they're lacking incredibly important info (not to mention most of them are NOT up to date, nor do they have any info on VPNs and how to stay safe from things like.... the govt? Or your internet provider?)

If you'd like to help out, or just wanna talk to me about digital literacy and what you'd like to learn, my messages and ask box are open ^^

[blogvalen]

Apa Itu Kemanan Digital?

Keamanan digital adalah upaya untuk melindungi identitas online, data, maupun aset digital lainnya, termasuk foto, kata sandi, nomor pin, hingga data layanan website.

Apakah keamanan digital sama dengan keamanan siber? Sebenarnya, makna kedua istilah ini sama saja. Namun, lingkup keamanan digital lebih luas dibandingkan keamanan siber yang terbatas pada jaringan komputer dan teknologi informasi.

Keamanan digital melindungi data dan informasi digital, seperti dokumen, gambar, video, dan suara. Sementara itu, keamanan siber melindungi seluruh aspek keamanan yang berkaitan dengan teknologi informasi dan jaringan dari ancaman yang berasal dari internet. Meski begitu, keamanan digital dan cyber security sama-sama penting dalam melindungi informasi digital.

Ini dia jenis informasi digital yang seringkali diincar penjahat cyber:

Data identitas pribadi: foto, nomor telepon, alamat, akun email dan password, nomor jaminan sosial, dll.

Data finansial: nomor kartu kredit, nomor kartu debit, kode PIN, dll.

Data kesehatan: riwayat kesehatan, resep obat, nomor asuransi, dll.

[taylorwatwork]

What is Digital Equity?

"Digital equity is a condition in which all individuals and communities have the information technology capacity needed for full participation in our society, democracy, and economy."

- National Digital Inclusion Alliance

ALT IMG: What is Digital Equity? title with an image of a mostly orange colored and accented bedroom featuring a large sized bed and a laptop. The question is answered in a dictionary definition form

[southeastasianists]

The Digital World: What about girls?

Insights from the Report on Girls’ Digital Literacy in the East Asia and Pacific Region

Antonia Mandry, Education Specialist

Today’s world is a digital world. We use technology for work, study, communicating and play. We use Apps such as WhatsApp, Google, and Instagram; but what role does gender play in how we can use technology?

In 2022, an estimated 73 per cent of Asia-Pacific youth aged 15–24 years were using the internet. By 2030, it is estimated that 80 per cent of jobs in Southeast Asia will require basic digital skills. Yet, girls and young women are less likely across the region to choose careers in technology including STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) because they are deemed as “men’s jobs” or “too hard” (Girls Digital Literacy Report, 2023).

Why? Gender norms, lack of knowledge on how to use technology, and access to devices and data can make it more difficult for girls to develop digital skills.

Girls are 1.8 times less likely than boys to own a smartphone. Women are 25 per cent less likely than men to know how to use technology for basic activities. Roughly 27 per cent of girls used the internet on their phones, compared with 46 per cent of boys. While girls and boys often have similar levels of digital literacy at younger ages; girls start to be left behind as they progress through education and, crucially, are less likely to develop advanced digital competences (Girls Digital Literacy Report, 2023).

Contributing factors include lack of access to devices, language barriers, and sociocultural norms which particularly impact girls. Girls, especially girls in rural areas, are lacking the support to develop advanced digital skills, to be ready for a digital future.

What can we do about the Gender Digital Divide?

The Girls Digital Literacy Report issued in April 2023 urges stakeholders including governments and the private sector to address the gender digital divide by supporting the empowerment of girls to develop advanced digital competencies safely and by ensuring both girls and boys have increased access to affordable internet and digital devices. It outlines the need to generate more data on digital skills by gender and to address sociocultural norms that limit girls’ technology-related aspirations and learning opportunities.

The Bangkok Statement 2022 and the Declaration on the Digital Transformation of Education Systems in ASEAN confirm governments' commitment to bridging the digital divide. Furthermore, organizations such as UNICEF are working with partners to provide devices and teacher training to get girls, and boys, the support they need to see the opportunities and the potential for a digital future.

UNICEF has supported partners across the region in addressing these needs. In Philippines, the Learning Passport has been deployed particularly in typhoon-effected areas to make sure that children keep learning and have access to technology to develop digital skills even in times of crisis. In Viet Nam, girls living in rural areas are being supported in schools with Virtual Reality glasses and tablets to learn about science, nature and the world around them. Initiatives in the region have shown children and their parents/caregivers that technology can be used for more! In Indonesia, WhatsApp was used for distance learning during school closures due to COVID-19 prevention measures.

The impact on girls can be meaningful and show a different future. Si, an 11-year-old girl from Ham Rong, a rural community in Vietnam always loved learning subjects like science, technology, engineering, and mathematics but the real-life application of technological innovation provided by the government with UNICEF support is completely new to her.

There is more work to be done. A key priority must be to address the lack of digital access within public education systems, particularly for girls and in rural areas. Supporting girls to learn digital skills by supporting teachers is critical. Teachers are key to combatting gender stereotypes regarding technology in the classroom where they can support the development of digital skills and literacy for girls. Working together, UNICEF and partners, especially the public sector, can overcome the gender digital divide and help girls develop their digital skills.

For girls and boys, the future is a bright one, and a digital one.

[loz-tearsofahomo]

When will people online but especially on TikTok accept there are and may be a myriad of reasons for disrupted functions and not all of them are can or should be sensationalized.

People believe SO much (especially cherry picked) information with no critical thoughts whatsoever, people can and WILL twist things (both on accident or on purpose) especially if its someplace where little to no accountability can be placed (aka online) !

ANYWAYS PSA DONT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU SEE ONLINE!! IM BEGGING YOU!! PLEASE QUESTION WHO AND WHAT YOU TRUST!!! PLEASE APPLY CRITICAL THINKING!!

Digital literacy skills are so so important.

[beazt]

hhhrhrghh I know I always bite off more than I can chew and atm I need to be focusing on my physical and mental health above all else, but I realized I am qualified to develop a free PDF digital literacy curriculum (including lessons/tutorials) since. that was essentially one of the main requirements of my job at one point (creating and executing a digital literacy curriculum)

the main reasons I left the job were: 1) the pay was godawful ($10/hr) 2) I was promised 15+ hours per week then only got 6 bc 3) one of the primary instructors Hated Me and refused to let me teach digital literacy in her classroom and 4) I was expected to be on-call w/o pay from 8-1pm every weekday on top of my twice weekly 3 hour shifts, despite never actually getting called in 5) I did not get paid for any time spent developing curricula or resources etc 6) this was in the height of covid lockdowns in 2020-2021

the Dean of the program beggggged me not to leave but nah