- Title
- The digital divide : Differences in computer use between home and school in low socio-economic households
- Creator
- Angus, Lawrence; Sutherland-Smith, Wendy; Snyder, Ilana
- Date
- 2003
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/69601
- Identifier
- vital:51
- Identifier
- ISSN:1567-6617
- Abstract
- This article examines information and communication technologies (ICTs) practices in the home and school settings of four disadvantaged families. It reports the findings of a year-long study that investigated the nexus between computer-mediated literacy practices at home and at school and whether this inter-connectivity could make a difference in school success. The findings indicate that there was disjunction between home and school use. The ``digital divide'' exists for the families of this study, not in terms of access but in the gap between ICT practices at home and school. Schools in this study did not integrate ICT skills learned and demonstrated in the home environment into ICT practices at school. The study concludes that constructing pedagogical connections between home and school ICT practices may begin to bridge the ``digital divide''.; C1
- Publisher
- Netherlands Kluwer (Springer)
- Relation
- Educational Studies in Language and Literature Vol. 3, no. (2003), p. 5-19
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- Copyright Kluwer (Springer)
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; Cultural capital; Digital divide; Disadvantage; Family attitudes; Home ICT use; ICT; School ICT use; Symbolic capital; Teacher attitudes
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