Nov. 17, 2008: Works Cited

Casey, Michael E. and Laura C. Savastinuk. Library 2.0: A Guide to Participatory Library Service. Medford: Information Today, Inc., 2007. Couldry, Nick. “New Media for Global Citizens? The Future of the Digital Divide Debate.” The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Fall/Winter 2007: 249-261. DiMaggio, Paul and Eszter Hargittai. “From the ‘Digital Divide’ to ‘Digital Inequality’: Studying Internet Use [...]

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Nov. 17, 2008: Conclusion

The solutions may, at first, seem simple—give students access to computers—but the implementation of those solutions are anything but simple. It is not enough of create assess to technology in a physical sense—that should only be the first step; educational institutions must create learners who are digitally literate in using the technology. Access to the [...]

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Nov. 17, 2008: Digital Literacy Training

Having technology at hand is not the same as creating a meaningful experience with technology for the users. There has been an “overemphasis on the importance of the physical presence of C&I [computers and the Internet] connectivity to the exclusion of other factors that allow students to use computers for meaningful ends” (Valadez 33). Teachers [...]

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Nov. 17, 2008: Technology Creating a Larger Divide

This is the essential problem with the participation gap—student that are not proficient users of technology are left behind in accessing more educational opportunities and leaves them further behind in becoming full participants of this new society. “As these rates increased, the focus expanded to include differences among high school and college students: for example, [...]

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Nov. 17, 2008: Ramifications of the Participation Gap

We must implement thoughtful training programs that engage the students that already feel marginalized. Warschauer states in his paper “Reconceptualizing the Digital Divide” that “access to ICT [Information and communication technology] is embedded in a complex array of factors encompassing physical, digital, human, and social resources and relationships. Content and language, literacy and education, and [...]

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Nov. 17, 2008: The Participation Gap

This participation gap that exists within the digital native population is the more specific problem that the digital divide is a part of. As Palfrey and Gasser write in Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives, “The biggest concern…is the impact of the participation gap. The digital world offers new opportunities to those [...]

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Nov. 17, 2008: The Digital Divide

The digital divide continues to impact citizens despite those who claim the problem no longer exists. There are two strains of digital divide: one is in the global spectrum between countries who have more access, the other is within a country—a domestic divide—of those who have access to technology. The latter will be the concentration [...]

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November 17, 2008: Introduction to Paper

The digital age has changed the way users interact with information and this knowledge must inform libraries and schools on how to best guide digital natives. The digital divide still exists despite those who claim, especially during the Bush administration, that it was a problem solved. The digital native thinks and interacts differently from the [...]

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Nov 17, 2008: The Importance of Digital Literacy Training to Social Inclusion

This paper was written for Michael Stephen’s fall LIS 768 course through the College of St. Catherine, in St. Paul, Minnesota. After reading Palfrey and Gasser’s Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives, I was overwhelmed with the idea that those in the participation gap were actually falling further behind in their educational opportunities [...]

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November 7, 2008: Paper Abstract

The Importance of Digital Literacy Training to Social Inclusion My research paper starts from the idea that the digital divide still exists despite those who claim, especially during the Bush administration, that it was a problem solved. The greater concern, though, lies in the participation gap within the digital native population. As Palfrey and Gasser [...]

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