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Digital Divide’s Deepest Divide
by Andrew McCaskey
The study in a Boston based Psychology Journal offers insight into one of the more subtle issues in the access of information via the internet.
We had always been operating under the assumption that the digital divide was caused by socio-economic factors, and that the high cost of equipment and access was the villain. This study indicates that this may not be the case.
As the amount of public access in libraries increases, the price of computer hardware drops to the point of almost any consumer entertainment device. And, with the grow of music downloading, IM, social media and higher speed connections, access has become more open.
And, we have had ten or fifteen years of at least some skill building in use of computers as they spread throughout society.
What has not been keeping pace ? Apparently this study indicates that critical thinking (as manifest by search skills) has not kept pace. While Google is the automatic starting point for the vast majority of educated and skilled workers, the first AOL result is often satisfying and the end point of the investigation.
At the rate we are going hardware wise, maybe we should spend less time on keyboarding class, and more time building search skills and the skills in evaluating the information that is found.
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