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8. Origin Story and Case Study – Part 3

The richness of our story is something almost out of fiction. In addition to the obvious geographical challenge facing Bart and me, there were other interesting gaps: a 24-year difference in our age, plus differences in culture, language, educational level and lifestyle: I’m American and he’s Polish.

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7. Origin Story and Case Study – Part 2

Let’s quickly cover a few ideas about literacy. My outlook about literacy began to change in my first conversation with Bart, after realizing that literacy means far more than reading, writing and speaking.

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6. Origin Story and Case Study – Part 1

In our very first conversation, a Zoom call in June 2020, my collaborator, Bart, and I coined a phrase for ourselves: Digital Visual Literacy (DVL). We immediately looked up any references to the term, but couldn’t find any.

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5. Making the Invisible Visible

The concept of “Making the Invisible Visible” can be applied to almost every complex problem or challenge you’ll ever face in life. Yet given its fundamental “common sense”, (as far as I’m aware,) neither the concept or expression is widely taught in our schools.

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4. Tackling Change and Complexity

As most of us realize, meaningful problem solving — especially involving behavior change — is difficult at best. It can be so frustrating that many of us give up along the way or before we even start. 

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3. Exploring the Idea of Literacy

In the most practical and general sense, literacy in a particular domain or realm is the ability to use a set specific skills, tools, and resources needed to understand, move around, and accomplish things.

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