The disagreements I have with this particular article are highlighted within the text, so I've decided to expand on them. The author here refers a great deal to the digital divide, however if there is evidence showing that the ‘digital divide’ is expanding, therefore in terms of teaching how do teachers propose to keep teaching through means of the internet if there are people being deprived of the media. This particular journal fails to answer this. The internet can't be as 'revolutionary' and playing apart in 'digital natives' lifes to the extent originally said because if it was wouldn't every one be able to have easy access to the internet?
It cannot be assumed that all children are being affected negative influences which defer away from traditional sources of education (online education). As argued within the article too, the research within the ‘risks’ of the internet tend to overlook children and focus on more frequent users of the internet i.e. older. Therefore is it fair to say they are affected to the extent being expressed? I’m not for one minute diminishing the stories of the risks of what is on the internet, but the media only express the risks, alike they do with other types of going on-s in society.
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I would say which digital divide? Economic? Gender? Kids vs. Adults or 'the elderly vs. everyone else, Rural vs. Metropolitan? All of these divides are amplifications of inequalities in all societies, but in some certain of them are more marked than others?
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I think the digital divide in concern with this journal would be the divide between people with and without internet access. However, as you have pointed out there are many more divides within society which are mirrored through new media which can be applied.
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