I probably should have mentioned this is only part of a larger diagnostic I use in my courses that assesses prior knowledge of the particular course area. Your comment has inspired me to include the actual diagnostic as a resource on this site (something I had intended to do for the new year). I will probably build a “community” access point for this purpose.

I will also, of course, share it in Collab!
http://socialmediaclassroom.com/index.php/

As I mentioned, the comment above – though lengthy is just top of my head stuff. Just taking the time to write that response is one of the issues. I happen to have some time right now. But if I was teaching full time at a high school I likely wouldn’t be looking at my blog for months on end.

I will focus my blog post largely on the students – as I realise the comment above was largely related to instructors (though I felt it was time to address that as well).

I think power, privilege and class bias (not to mention racism and other forms of discrimination) are a big part of this digital divide. Far too often, these discussions focus on hardware, software and expertise – and not the larger issues that influence these inequities (even the issue of praxis in pedagogy for equity is obscured). As an anti-poverty educator, these issues are very important to me. Thanks for inspiring this conversation.