[net-gold] Looking Beyond the Digital Divide
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- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:32:29 -0400 (EDT)
Looking Beyond the Digital Divide
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Subject: Looking Beyond the Digital Divide
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Looking beyond the digital divide At a previous point in my career, I
benefited from professional development, autonomy in my classroom, and a
superb technology infrastructure to become a connected, inspired and
effective educator. Now, with the current climate in the field of
education in the U.S., I fear that other teachers will lose, or never even
experience, similar opportunities. As an education technology advocate
interacting with teachers in a variety of settings, I see that our
students are receiving vastly different types of education. This divide
trickles specifically down to the educational technology experiences our
students are receiving in schools, too.
For approximately the past 20 years, Ive mainly worked in urban
educational settings ranging from a Catholic elementary school to inner
city neighborhood schools to a highly successful independent school. Not
only have I seen the predictable imbalance of resources in these schools,
but I have also seen distinctly different sets of educational values.
Experiential education is an important part of independent school culture,
but in some of the other schools Ive come across, the focus is entirely on
test scores. In the independent school where I once worked, third grade
students receive hands-on, inquiry-based science instruction two times a
week from a dedicated science teacher; the students also attend a computer
science class once a week.
In contrast, I know of an urban public school that stopped all science
teaching in third grade so that students could participate a
computer-based arithmetic drill program. Data had informed the
administration that these third graders were behind in their ability to
compute.
The complete article may be read here:
<http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/04/beyond-the-digital-divide.html>
Bonnie Bracey Sutton
Outreach GLEF.org
http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/bbracey
My communities
http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/summitforchildren
http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/gendergap
CyberEd Resources : ICT's and Education (owner)
Games and Education (owner)
Science without Frontiers STEM Initiatives K-12 (owner)
http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/bbracey
Portal Work
http://edreform.net/
Technology Applications for learning in the portal
applications.edreform.net
Technology Applications for Learning
The Technology Applications for
Learning Network is a catalog of technology
applications for learning.
http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/STEM
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