Addressing the Digital Divide

The future has arrived addressing William Gibson’s observation and it is not equally distribute with two components. There are the have-nots; if they have a cell phone and network the price is very, very low and everybody has it. It took a short ten years there was the network and computers that were expensive and hard to get on. Not it is simple, cheat, and everyone can get on having access to other people, commerce, and information. The world is changing because of a tiny device and its network (Soloway).

A lot of people in the world have never used a telephone and global perspective is important. We must understand a culture enough for helping people to incorporate new ideas into their culture and when you bring technology to their culture; you must understand their culture and see which technologies will be appropriate for them (Thornburg, 2009).

To help make emerging technologies valuable to others while maintaining gender, cultural, and socioeconomic sensitivity; I will continue to keep up with the new technologies that come available. When the college introduces new technology I will take the training classes so that when it is presented to the students I will have some understanding of what to do and how to do it so that I may be able to help them to understand what they are doing and why. Also, I will have a better attitude of learning something new and not always depending on what I am use too. What may be useful to me, in the long run may not be for my students. My focus is to be sure that all the students learn and will be able to achieve their goals when they leave the classroom.

References:

Thornburg, D. (2009). Diversity and globalism. Laureate Education, Inc. Retrieved November 17, 2010 from http://sylvan.live.ecollege.com/ec/crs/default.learn?CourseID=4199715&Survey=1&47=5828341&ClientNodeID=984645&coursenav=1&bhcp=1

Soloway, E. (n.d.). The digital divide: leveling the playing field. [Podcast]. Retrieved November 17, 2010 from http://sylvan.live.ecollege.com/ec/courses/14936/CRS-WUEDUC8812-3730077/EDUC_8848_PK_Transcript.pdf

Red Queens and Increasing Returns

The DVD that I obtained for Module 4 was Next. I rented from the video store. The current competition between DVDs and video on demand are Red Queens. The reason is that they did not hit the market at the same time. DVDs and video on demand are competing against one another and working to achieve the same goal (Thornburg, 2009). People spend money going to video stores to rent DVD movies, record them on a DVR, and video on demand they can rent the movie and watch it on their computer with some free of charge and some a fee.

I believe that DVDs and video on demand of McLuhan’s tetrad is reversal; it is setting the stage for its own replacement.

Reference:

Thornburg, D. (2009). Red Queens and Increasing Returns Vodcast: In Laureate Education, Inc. Emerging and future technology.