The chosen article this week has to do with digital literacy and teachers. Over the past number of years the focus was on infrastructure and access to technology in schools. Now schools are typically well equipped close to a 99% connectivity rate for all public schools having a connection to the internet and significant funding increases to grow and maintain digital access. However, according to the article, there is still an issue districts need to overcome, there is a measurable skills gap which needs to be addressed with teachers and digital literacy.
The deficiency in digital literacy is not due necessarily to the lack of teacher drive to learn and assimilate technology but a lack in standardized digital-literacy curriculum and training for the students and teachers. Teachers are typically training through a mixed variety of resources and tools without guidance for quality and grade appropriateness resulting in unequal instruction from classroom to classroom. What districts and faculty are now looking for is to adopt or create standardized curriculum and training to implement so the students and teachers are all brought up to a basic level of digital literacy to enable success.
Oelrich, K. (2017, June 23). The New Digital Divide. Retrieved June 25, 2017, from https://www.languagemagazine.com/2017/06/new-digital-divide/
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