Digital Divide research topic 1 post2

The digital divide Continued...

To help understand the concept from my last blog I'll begin with  5 hypothetical  scenario's.

The student could have one of the following,  these results could stem from determining factors in the home environment, such as how much money is earned in the house, what type of education do the parents have, and the geographic location such as in the desert or the dark side of the moon.

1. The student doesn't have access to computer at school.

2. Own's a computer but has no internet access.

3. Own's a computer with internet access, but of poor quality ie down load and upload speed (dial up).

4. Own's a computer but doesn't know how to use it (or other family members use it more).

5. The student has access to a computer but only at school.

What does this mean?

To put it plainly we have a percentage of kids in schools who can't participate fully in there work from home, that means they need to undertake all there ICT while on school grounds as well as attend all classes.

Is it even that important that we make sure kids have access, I mean how many people are using computers in australia anyway, can't we just do teaching the old way on paper? NO

The graph below shows that generally 75% of Australians are now online, now admittedly Tanya Notley & Marcus point out that this data can't be 100% percent as there are pockets in the community that are missed in the data collection but as a general rule it make a strong point that computers are a big part of our lives.

WOW OMG could this be true! Yes

To be continued .......

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