What is the Digital Divide?

Published on May 20, 2019

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What is the Digital Divide?

and Why is it changing?
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What is the DIGITAL Divide?

  • Mid 1990's the term was coined
  • Meant that those have or have not-computers and internet
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Why is the digital Divide Changing?

  • Mobile Phones Worldwide subscribers and users
  • Tablets
  • Xbox
  • Digital Inclusion
  • Access~ Adoption~ Literacy
  • by SaraBernard, "Crossing the Digital Divide: Bridges and Barriers to Digital Inclusion, 08/08/2011, www.edutopia.org

How  Does the Digital Divide  impact me

in my everyday experinces?

How I am Impacted:

  • my cell phone aka mini computer
  • Laptop necessity for me
  • Faster Speeds and improved connectivity
  • Dead spots

What Impact will the digital Divide

have on today's learners?
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How are today's learners impacted?

  • Kinds of Access varies
  • Lacking homebroad access
  • Broadband infrastructure needed, especially rural
  • Issue of Enpowerment vs Entertainment
  • by Mary Beth Hertz, "A New Understanding of the Digital Divide, 10/24/2011, www.edutopia
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Judith Hatten

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