{"id":149,"date":"2008-08-25T12:54:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T18:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/?p=149"},"modified":"2008-09-04T12:36:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T18:36:06","slug":"grappling-with-the-digital-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/2008\/08\/25\/grappling-with-the-digital-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Grappling with the digital divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=26&amp;storycode=403135\">Grappling with the digital divide<\/a><br \/>\nTimes Higher Education, August 14, 2008<br \/>\nHannah Fearn<\/p>\n<p>This article grapples with the difficulties of getting faculty to teach with the communication tools their students are now used to using. It suggests students are \u2018transliterate\u2019 across a range of technologies and laments that most faculty are not.<\/p>\n<p>Now I\u2019m all for faculty experimenting with email and forums, but I wonder sometimes if making dichotomies between those who do and those who don\u2019t is the most helpful way to think about the problem.<\/p>\n<p>I like to suggest to students that technologies at work progress vertically, and one system drives out another. Whereas technologies at home progress horizontally, and we just get more and more ways to do the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, what we have today are different ranges of competence &#8211; perhaps we\u2019re more up the analog end, and they\u2019re more up the digital end. But at the same time, we occasionally send text messages, and they know how to get a stamp and mail a card. And both parties are struggling with how to construct an identity on the ever shifting sands of privacy. May be we have more in common than we like to think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grappling with the digital divide Times Higher Education, August 14, 2008 Hannah Fearn This article grapples with the difficulties of getting faculty to teach with the communication tools their students are now used to using. It suggests students are \u2018transliterate\u2019 across a range of technologies and laments that most faculty are not. Now I\u2019m all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[582,581,13],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-communication-practices","tag-digital-divide","tag-inequality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}