Digital Divide 2.0

The digital divide is something that has been plaguing and concerning the education community for some time now. The growing gap between people with access to computers and people without has no diminished as technology has become cheaper and a force found everywhere. The new problem, coined as "The Digital Divide 2.0", is the gap between people with home internet access and people without it.

Most schools these days provide computers with internet access for students to use as classroom resources. Even schools with low SES get grants and donated computers. And teachers are called on more and more to make technology apart of their classroom. They are supposed to find new and inventive ways to incorporate social media into lesson plans to keep students interested. But teachers can help lessen the hurt of the Digital Divide 2.0 by keeping assignments the require the internet to the classroom and not at home. If a homework assignment will require internet access, be sure to have time before and after school as well as during lunch that students can come into your classroom and work on the school computers.