Digital Access

Digital access and Divide by Brian Scheid on GoAnimate


             Digital Access is when the human population has access to the electronic world. No matter what you're economic status is. Digital access is a key to life, on our world today you cannot live life without it. If you do you will struggle keeping up.
             Digital is great for me and my family members. I Have a computer pretty anywhere I  go whether its in school or at home. So if receive homework or have to work on a project that requires a computer or something like that I always have access to one. But in other countries it may be very different when it comes to that type of stuff. It could be different because if there social classes and there climate.
              Digital divide in education can vary in different locations, also it differ in with the social economic status. Everywhere you go in the world it could be different. But the general problem of  Digital divide in education is that some students may be more or underprivileged than others. Student with families that have jobs, or that have money can afford to purchase such items as computers or macs. Students with families may be out of work, or can't work, or just have the money; do not have the ability to have laptops at home. Then the students are just limited to the public library or the school library, then what happens when those are closed the students are stuck. That's the main problem of digital divide in education, in our world today.
             For me digital divide isn't a problem, wherever I go I always have access to computers.That's the way it has been for me. But seeing people not in the same case as me makes me realize how lucky I am to be that fortunate.  
            At Bacon Academy I'm not sure how big of a problem digital divide is, I'm sure it does exist. I hope that to the students that it effects they are able to go to the library, whenever they need to, whether its the public library or if the school library. I personally don't notice it, but I'm sure that the teachers and staff do.
           Effects that digital divide is tremendous, not only can it affect the students academic growth in bad way. It can also affect a student's emotional state, if the student know that they could possibly fail a class because of not having access to a computer make them not motivated or depressed. Also can affect their emotional development because even its not exactly related to school with students not having access to computer, they will not be able to take part in social media/ networking.
           Some solutions that schools can take to try to gap digital divide, is to put more of there spending money towards get computers that work! Some schools have computers that don't work and then there always trying to fix them. Then they say where do we come up with the money, this is tough for me a to say because an athlete, but they should take some of the money for there sports fund or they should stop spending all their money on sports.
          Digital Access should have an positive effect on their users, to make there lives easier. That's why we need to take a step in the right direction and make it easier for those that are underprivileged.

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