Lowell Telecommunications Corporation

"Give a man fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime."

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At LTC, we firmly believe that it is simply not enough to give people access to a video camera or computer. Without training in the formal, aesthetic, and critical uses of media technologies, communities will be ill-equipped to produce meaningful content that communicate their points of view.

We also believe that showing someone how a technology works is only one part of a much larger context of understanding media technologies. With this in mind, the LTC educational program is comprehensive and covers all aspects of media and technology literacy from how technologies are developed to the money behind them to how our uses of them get shaped by commercial interests to how certain messages get heard over others and why. Our aim is to create a community of informed, technology literate, and critically-thinking media producers.

Finally, from our very inception we have seen that the convergence of traditional video / television technologies with newer computer-based ones, will have a profound impact on the ways in which our citizens send and receive information of all kinds. Therefore, our curriculum covers a breadth of telecommunications technologies from video cameras to computers to radio and seeks to explore the ways in which these technologies merge and overlap.