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...]
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...]
Facebook funds our Initiative for Digital Citizenship!!
When I started thinking about the use of the Internet, I remembered all of the people who could not read who asked me to teach them to read when they found out I was a teacher. That was many years ago and reading literacy is still a problem. Now I have a new way of thinking, there needs to be more than just reading literacy, I believe digital literacy is a civil rights issue. The headline here talks about the urban poor but it is more than just the urban poor who are worried. See … [Read more...]
Why So Few? Do you really want to know? That Gender Problem
How do we encourage women in STEM? Computational Sciences? The "digital divide" that persists in Internet use based on income, education and community means people are not acquiring the digital fluency that is required to operate in to-day's world Let's Talk Gender In an era when women are increasingly prominent in medicine, law and business, why are there so few women scientists and engineers? A new research report by AAUW presents compelling evidence that … [Read more...]
Teachers and Transformational Learning /ICT An International Look
Teachers and Transformational Learning /ICT International Reflections Some say, in thinking about teaching and learning “A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.”lately, it seems that most people want to blame the teacher for the problems in our countries and burn out those currenly in the profession. I think many conversations about teaching and learning have put out the desire of many to be teachers, and have saddened those who … [Read more...]
