My research to date has been very substantial. My main thesis is arguing that the digital divide will get smaller over time. With the help of the authors Servon, Sutherland-Smith, and Kolodinsky supporting my claims I was able to argue that many people can help the division among generations. All the authors feel that there is many ways to make this division smaller.
The conversation between the authors really takes the stance that there is a digital divide and it will eventually get smaller with the help of many. Kolodinsky did a study that showed how 4-H club members went and taught elder people how to do certain things on a computer. The study ultimately showed there was help for both generations. Another author who had a great study was Sutherland-Smith. She sat in on web classes and library classes of grade six classes in a coeducational private school in the suburbs of Australia. In the library she reveals that the children tend to have a more leisurely attitude towards reading; during the web classes she found that they tended to think it was way faster and all about speed. With her findings she revealed many different teaching methods that would have worked for this new concept of “web literacy (669).” These new teaching methods will help not leave the kids disadvantaged or excluded from the “global literacy community (663).”
My only concerns with my research are that some of it may not make a whole lot of sense. I really need to focus in on tying everything together. I feel in some places I go into way to much detail when it is not really necessary. I also feel that without a few more authors supporting me it all won't make very much sense.
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