Back to the Future: What a Project of the 1990s Can Tell Us about Today's Digital Divide

Autor/in	Dixon, David
Titel	Back to the Future: What a Project of the 1990s Can Tell Us about Today's Digital Divide
Quelle	In: FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 63 (2021) 2, S.89-97 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0963-8253
DOI	10.3898/forum.2021.63.2.08
Schlagwörter	Access to Computers; Disadvantaged; Educational History; Technology Integration; Information Technology; Home Schooling; COVID-19; Pandemics; Foreign Countries; Principals; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Informationstechnologie; Homeschooling; Home instruction; ; Hausunterricht; Heimschule; Ausland; Principal; Schulleiter; Großbritannien
Abstract	This is a first-hand account of a head teacher's quest to bridge the digital divide in a school catchment of considerable disadvantage in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It describes the Microsoft Anytime Anywhere Learning project (AAL), which the school helped to pioneer in the UK. From this, the paper aims to provide some fresh perspectives on the deficit of IT provision which has inhibited home learning during the COVID-19 pandemic 'lockdown'. Through referencing the AAL project, the author also calls into question the notion that bridging the digital divide is the great educational panacea, a view which has become the received wisdom among certain politicians and educationalists. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01