The Digital Divide in the Classroom
Sally McLaren,
Child Research Net,
Jan 25, 2002
A cautionary tale expressing the frustrations and the fears of some classroom instructors. "The students sit down in front of their computers. Some have trouble logging on to the system, others find their computer keeps crashing. Quite a few don't know how to use a search engine properly. The teacher doesn't really know how to fix the students' computers. The class starts to get noisy." I can think of a lot that went wrong in this scenario, and so can the author... but they're different things. Why oh why would a teacher assign a web-search activity in a one-hour chunk of class time? Use the class time to talk, to interact... that's what it's there for.
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