Turning to consider connected learning, Ong pronounced previously, “Language . . . is paramount.”611 By contrast, according to the participants in this study, relationship or connection with people was paramount. Ong majored on the study of communication and seemed to neglect the communicators, the vehicles driving the process. For the participants and their lifeworlds, the contrast was not between orality and literacy, between oral communication and text, but between learning from people and learning from print. Learning from people involved watching, listening, then talking.
