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Educ 403x

Educ 403x. Mitchell Stevens and Roy Pea. education ’ s digital future. edf.stanford.edu. “ Digital Divide ” - Origins. “ Falling through the Net ” - US Department of Commerce – 1995, 2000 “ Resolving the Digital Divide ” - PITAC 2000. Digital Divides: First Conception.

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Educ 403x

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  1. Educ 403x • Mitchell Stevens and Roy Pea education’s digital future edf.stanford.edu

  2. “Digital Divide” - Origins • “Falling through the Net” - US Department of Commerce – 1995, 2000 • “Resolving the Digital Divide” - PITAC 2000

  3. Digital Divides: First Conception • US Department of Commerce (2000): • “differences in the shares of each group that is digitally connected” • Studied by income level, educational level, race and ethnic origins, location (home), gender, household type • US Department of Education, NCES (2000) • Measured in students per instructional computer with Internet access

  4. Key Concept: A Shifting Center • “As empowering and fundamental roles for technology use throughout society become more evident, issues of equitable access to technologies that make a difference to learning and teaching become more central to address” (Pea, 2001) • This is even more evident in 2013 as the pace of change accelerates for technology in society

  5. E-Rate Program as Federal Response • Developed in 1996 Telecommunications Act; started funding ‘98 • E-Rate: Schools and Libraries Program of Universal Service Fund, administered under the direction of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) • Funded by a Universal Service fee charged to companies providing interstate and/or international telecommunications services • 20%- 90% discounted support for connectivity from eligible schools, districts, libraries - $6Bil from 1998-2001 alone • Has commonly disbursed ~$2.25Bil a year to over 4,000 service providers in over 100,000 schools - though dropped recently

  6. Access to What? What Purposes? • Content Divides • High literacy levels of websites (still an issue) • English-only websites (2001 –> major changes and Google Translate) • Lack of cultural relevance for many groups (2001 –> many developments since!) • Quality of Service Divides • Speed of connectivity for rich media – Broadband • Competency Divides • E.g. Critical search competencies; Computational thinking; Web Collaboration

  7. Beyond technologic logic to sociotechnical thinking • “[The] big problem with the ‘digital divide’ framing is that it tends to connote ‘digital solutions, ’” that is, “computers and telecommunications,” without a consideration of the context into which that hardware would be put." (Rob Kling)

  8. education’s digital future edf.stanford.edu

  9. Computing and Innovation

  10. an experiential…..

  11. 1. Do you program computers for at least five hours a week (or not)?

  12. 2. Have you created or modified a website this month?

  13. 3. Do you own five computers or more counting your laptop, smartphone, music players?

  14. 4. Have you created a computer animation, robot, videogame, or digital music lately?

  15. 5. Do you use Twitter or post blogs at least daily? 

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