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Cyber Seniors

From Michigan comes a report about the doors opened by high-speed Internet access. The Lansing State Journal reports on a class aimed at increasing Internet skills for seniors, a demographic at danger of being left on the wrong side of the digital divide.

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The digital "dimmer switch"

The digital divide is less binary, but rather more like a "digital dimmer switch," according to the Pew Center. Recently, the Pew Hispanic Center and the Pew Internet & American Life Project teamed up to produce a study on Latino internet use. The study found that non-Hispanic whites have a 71% internet participation rate, while Latino adults are hovering around a 56% participation rate. While the numbers tell one story, the study also found the internet-usage gap between whites and Latinos to be closing.

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School technology initiatives must follow the kids home

Speed Matters blogger Laura Unger notes that North Carolina is taking a step in the right direction with its school broadband connectivity initiative. She also thinks that to have a program that focuses on the schools and does not address the lack of access to the home is faulty. "It is like buying great textbooks for every student and then not allowing them to take them home to study use for their homework; it's like have a great teacher but making the kids leave their notes in school."

School technology initiatives must follow the kids home