Posts Tagged ‘digital divide’

Bridging the digital divide

Alabama provides students 21st century skills. By John Norton. Kurtavia, a first grader at George Hall Elementary in inner-city Mobile, Alabama, sits at a computer bigger than she is and strikes several keys. A window pops up on the screen and when she clicks the “play” button, we see a colorful...
November 12th, 2009 | 01 (6) 2009 / html, Learning | Read More

In Britain: Connect digitally disadvantaged

It should be no surprise that the country most experienced in the art of knowledge sharing, with its history of town criers and the ‘sport’ of debate, would be the most vigorous adapters and promoters of new media communications breakthroughs. The United Kingdom even has a Digital Inclusion Minister,...
April 12th, 2009 | 01 (1) 2009 / html, FREE articles, Learning | Read More