Morse Article - Ensuring Equality of Educational Opportunity in the Digital Age

The digital divide. Are some students allowed acces to computers while others are not? Although I agree with the article that the economic status of a community plays a huge role in whither or not a school has a 100 computers or just a few. I think that it is becoming more and more affordable for schools to purchase computers and even though a school might not have hundreds of them they still will have a few for students to use. Overall I think our society places value on computer technology and slowly we are integrating computers more and more into our schools. I think this integration is very valuable for our students since we are now considered a technology society. I also believe that in a effort to stock our schools with computers we are trying to level the socio-economic playing field by giving students without computers in their home a chance to also learn computer technology.

I like how the article stated, "When a student is engaged in problem-solving
activities while using computer technology, he will learn that computer technology
is a tool that he can control for the purpose of enhancing his learning."
I think with this type of hidden computer technology curriculum students are inadvertently learning that they are mastering higher level thinking and computing skills through technology. Bridging the computer divide will only help our children in the long run. As a future teacher I hope to do my part in filling in this gap.