The Digital Divide that exists between Digital Learners and

Traditional Teachers:
From: Closing the Digital Divide:
7 Things Education & Educators Need to Do
By Ian Jukes, The InfoSavvy Group and Ted McCain, Cystar
(http://www.committedsardine.com/blog.cfm)
 21st Century Digital learning
preferences:
Receive info quickly from multiple Slow & controlled release of info
multimedia sources.
Initiate planning by identifying Planning begins with the textbook
what students are to know and do or student activities
as a result of the unit
Parallel processing & multi-
tasking.
Processing pictures, sounds
color, & video before text
Random access to hyper-linked
multimedia information
To network simultaneously with
many others
To learn “just-in-time”
Instant gratification & immediate
rewards
Learning that’s relevant, active,
instantly useful & fun
Using a variety of instructional
resources
Making interdisciplinary
connections to further learning
Ongoing assessment (formative
and summative) to extend
understanding through
application of knowledge
Students and teachers
collaborate
Making connections with
classrooms around the world
Teachers and students use
technology together learning from
each other
Work is ‘published’ allowing
audiences around the world to
view, comment and critique it
Using the Internet to receive
information, additionally Web 2.0
Tools are employed to post,
publish, create, connect with
Traditional Classrooms
preferences:
from limited sources.
Singular processing & single or
limited tasking.
to provide text before pictures,
sounds & video
Provide info linearly, logically and
sequentially.
Students to work independently
before they network & interact
To teach “just-in-case”
Deferred gratification & delayed
rewards
Feel compelled to teach to the
curriculum guide & tests
Textbook is used as the main
source of information
Concentrate on instruction for
single content areas
Summative or end of unit
assessment
Students and teachers work
independently
Limiting connections with other
classrooms
Teacher is the primary user of
technology
Work is shared primarily with the
teacher.
Using the Internet to retrieve
information
© The InfoSavvy Group, May, 2008