The Digital Divide

1. Unfortunately, we live in an economically divided country. Even more unfortunately is that socioeconomic status determines what you will have access to, the quality of that access, and how much access you will get. It could be something as silly from where you buy your clothes to having access to a computer in a rapidly technologically progressive world.

2. We are living in a world in transition. We are in the process of taking our worlds and putting them on the internet. And this is an important era. It's the era of access. Access to knowledge, information, social networking, professional networking, etc, etc, etc. And mastery of this access creates creates individuals that want knowledge. Just in the realm of social networking, it is making communication so instantaneous. We see an interesting link, video, anything on the internet, and in the next instant, we're are posting it to Facebook to share with our friends. It is making communication with each other more vast. I think in this age, we know much more about each other than ever before.

3. I think that eventually, class time will be dedicated every day to using the computer in the curriculum. I do not necessarily think that this will be in any immediate future. I think a way that we could help if a student did not have at-home access to the internet would be to give the student extra time to complete the work, so that they are able to use a public computer, such as the ones at the library. Or, you could dedicate a time for the student to go to the school library, either during the said teacher's period, lunch, or whenever is convenient.