Can you hear me now? The digital divide is alive and well. It's just more complicated. Teachers are under attack and the digital divide is even worse than before.I have had lively discussions with educators , friends of mine , who tell me that I am dedicating time to a useless cause. They say the digital divide is solved , and talk about the new technologies as if everyone has access, knowledge, and information. They tell me that the reason funding is short is because there has been a … [Read more...]
E-rate. Access, and Advocacy for Schools
Written by Bonnie Bracey Sutton with concepts from an NCTET sharing of information. Articles and resources as cited. Download View slide show (1) Download as zip THEN I was in the room when the idea of E-rate was conceived. Someone had shown me the classroom of thefuture, which is not yet in vogue, from the University of Illinois, NCSA and I became depressed my classroom and I told them that for schools of need, nothing would happen without some way of subsidy ( … [Read more...]
Access, Broadband, Pedagogical Knowledge….Our Schools Are Waiting…and Waiting…
Bonnie Bracey-Sutton-Digital Equity and Social Justice SIG Chair I enjoyed reading this article in the New York Times, from which I have taken an excerpt. Schools Cut Off From the Web http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/opinion/our-schools-cut-off-from-the-web.html I was the only K-12 teacher on the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council. in 1996 President Clinton ,called for libraries and classrooms to be “hooked up to the Information Superhighway by the year … [Read more...]
