Clay Shirky: How social media can make history. How Teachers Use Technology: The Latest Research. Back in 2011, I wrote a post about the "New Digital Divide.
" Based on Pew Research data from 2011, it was apparent that, while many previously marginalized populations now had more access to the Internet, these populations were accessing the Internet mostly through mobile devices, which are limiting, especially when trying to build and create online or access job applications or opportunities. Just this past week, Pew released a new study called How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms. It explores how teachers use the Internet for their own professional learning, with their students and for communicating with families. Who's Connected and Who Isn't.
TEDxNYED - Henry Jenkins - 03/06/10. Technology - How technology democratised development. Over the coming weeks, A Matter of Life and Tech will feature a range of voices from people helping to build Africa’s tech future. This week, mobile innovator Ken Banks argues that technology has become a vital tool in the fight against poverty. Twenty years ago, if you were information technology-literate and interested in international development, your options were limited. That’s how things were for me when, in 1993, armed with ten years programming and networking experience I began turning my attention to the developing world. My efforts didn’t get me far. Democracy.