Addressing the Technology Learning Divide Using Co-Learning with Familiarization Method
Anik Saha, Naimur Rahman, Nova Ahmed · 2024
Empowerment of low-literate women and marginalized communities through learning technology is emphasized by researchers. Co-learning techniques using familiarization methods can effectively help low-tech literate people learn technology, which is underexplored. This pilot study was conducted in two phases. Phase-I explored technology’s learning and adaptation strategies with a qualitative study, where the researcher considered N=36 female participants in urban and rural regions of 3 major divisions of Bangladesh. Phase-II was conducted N=16 (Parent=8, Children=8) participants in Dhaka division urban and rural settings with a series of workshops to understand the impact, opportunities, and challenges of co-learning and familiarization methods in terms of learning technology. Findings show that technology co-learning with familiarization methods greatly aids low-literate women in adopting and pursuing technology rapidly. The findings are essential to provide insights to the CHI, and CSCW community regarding opinions on technology learning and adaptation scenarios of low-tech literate women in developing countries perspectives.