Jake+TPACK2+reflection

Most of our reflections recognized Kelly's three digital divides as a new and insightful way to consider the former single digital divide topic. Here are two resources for expanding our perspective on the 2nd and 3rd digital divide.

Regarding the second digital divide of quality TMI, [|Marc Prensky]'s article [|"Adopt and Adapt: Shaping Tech for the Classroom,"] in the December 2005/January 2006 issue of //Edutopia// magazine presents an excellent framework for understanding technology adoption in the classroom. He breaks down technology adoption into 4 typical stages:
 * 1) Dabbling.
 * 2) Doing old things in old ways.
 * 3) Doing old things in new ways.
 * 4) Doing new things in new ways.

I think Marc Prensky's framework is a pragmatic and useful way to gauge the use of technology in our classroom.

Paul Gorski, founder of [|edchange.org] and an assistant professor of Integrative and Interdisciplinary Studies in George Mason University's New Century College, wrote an [|essay] in 2001 that uses a multicultural lens to better understand the third digital divide. It is a passionate and intense essay that focuses on not simply inadequate attempts at closing but eliminating digital divides.