Digital divide

learning environments. Learning does not just occur in modern day classrooms, however, digital technology and online blended learning strategies are now incorporated in a number of university courses (McKenzie and Pizzica, 2014). The introduction of digital tools in the classroom would mean that problems such as digital inequity could arise and so, a digital divide could develop. Research suggests the digital divide is complex (Selwyn, 2010) and needs to be considered “not just in terms of…

The 21st century has not hindered concern surrounding this digital divide within international agencies such as the United Nations Development Program (Norris 2000). The disparities between developing societies and advanced are considered to be increasing and gap widening. This lends itself to putting countries at an economic advantage or disadvantage, leading to many flow-on effects. Poorer nations such as India, Africa, and southern parts of Asia have been in large, unable to invest in the…

the remaining billions of people have been left on the short side of the gap known as the digital divide. This divide has contributed the perpetuation of poverty in developing nations tremendously by causing the people who live in these places to fall behind in adapting socioeconomic markets. Without access to the internet or even the software and hardware required to gain such access, the digital divide only continues to grow ever wider. However, the rise of social media may provide an…

What is Digital Divide? The digital divide is the gap between those who have access to the Internet and those who do not. It also has to do with the amount of information people with Internet can access. The speed of the Internet connection, the price of the Internet, and the performance of the computers available all play a part in the digital divide. The digital divide is found in different socioeconomic groups, the educated and uneducated, and between less industrialized nations. Governments…

The Digital Divide is the term that describes the gap between people with and without access to the internet ranging from economic to racial factors. The 2013 United States Census indicates 98 percent of Americans having access to internet services. However, it still establishes that a quarter of those people do not have access to broadband or a consistent platform for internet at home. Studies by the Pew Research Center and Fact Tank in 2016 show a stark contrast in the digital divide through…

knowing the truth. Developing countries are being shipped mountains of our e-waste to “bridge the digital divide” when in reality we just do not want to deal with these products that cost more to fix than they are worth. I will first explain what it is we are doing to these countries, how it affects them, and why it is being allowed in the first place. Then I will tie in my children’s book The Digital Divide and how it exemplifies what is happening in the world of e-waste in developing countries…

Dear Dr. Edmondson, Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. My name is Wendy Klunk. I am in eighth grade at Norup International School in Oak Park, Michigan. In my technology class we have recently been studying digital divides. A digital divide is a split between those who have access to sufficient modern technology and those whose access is insufficient. At the state government level, I feel as though this issue is mainly focused on in terms of the city of Detroit and its…

limitless and infinite in its abilities and possibilities. There are still barriers that technology needs to overcome for it to become this limitless instrument. The obstacles of the internet are language, geography limitations, filter bubble and the digital divide. People are separated by technology because we are bounded by language on the internet. One example of this is Wikipedia which according to their list of Wikipedia articles has over 5 million English articles in comparison Cantonese…

there is the issue of the digital divide. The digital divide is the inequality between people with access to these information and communication technology and those do not. On a global scale, the global digital divide covers disparities between the developed countries which have access to this form of technology verses the developing countries which do not have access to this technology depriving them from developing into a developed country. Bridging the global digital divide would take a lot…

rock, and acoustic sounds. Ed Sheeran has brought many great songs into the light with his three major albums, titled after mathematical symbols. All the albums that have been released by Ed Sheeran are phenomenal, but his most recent collection ÷(Divide) is definitely his best album to date. Good music is largely defined by each individual and is rarely accepted across the board. Ed Sheeran, however, is accepted across many genres. His songs have made the charts in the standard…