With living in a developed country like ours, the UK, the majority of us will have access to the Internet or have the Internet ourselves in our homes. But, this isn't the case for all countries across the world. A lot of under developed countries won't have access to the Internet like we do. Even if they did have a place near them that had the Internet, numerous people living in third world countries won't even be able to afford to go and use the Internet. This is a major problem which is definitely creating an increase in the digital divide.
If Prensky's notion of distance learning was to become the known for education, then so many people in under developed countries would be deprived of this kind of education and possibly education in general if it was to become such a well used thing that schools are no longer needed - it is all online. There are a few places in countries in Africa that have only just got access to schools and normal, non online education. So it'd be these countries that would suffer.
I terms of regions, even some regions suffer from having no access to the Internet because they live in the middle of nowhere so the Internet signals would be weak and means that they can't use the Internet at a high speed like many of us lot do. So this could influence them to not use the Internet at all because it could take ages for an Internet page to load up, let alone connect properly. - This is again adding to the gap in the digital divide and it is a problem which might not be able to be helped.
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Do you think that some children / students who go to school / college / uni who live in the sticks' who cant get the internet should be able to have more time to do work or does it not matter? Is it a sort of disadvantage for them then? x
Thats a good point you're making mel. Thinking about it like that, I do think that children who don't have access to the internet or as good access should have extra time to do their work because it is definitely a disadvantage. But then would the other children/students start complaining that this is unfair and they might even start to make up problems with their internet so that they too can get extra time to do their work?
At school, children make up excuses up all the time "the dog ate my homework" ect. but if teachers note that some children have disadvantages they could make an extra deadline in secreat between teacher and pupil however some children might tell thier friends and this could lead into the problem that you said emily.. just a suggestion though?
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