A reaction to Charlotte Fewtrell's blog post:

I recently read Charlotte Fewtrell's blog post titled 'The Digital Divide'. Unfortunately I can't quite figure out how to comment on this post, so I will write my entire reaction here.


Charlotte posted this video on her blog. She watched in during her tutorial, but I did not so I found it quite interesting! Charlotte describes that watching the video with her tutorial class was interesting and resulted in a great discussion... and now i can see why...





The presenter says, 'finally children growing up in poverty have the opportunity to click on their potential and log into a brighter future.' This is a really beautiful and inspiring video as it really shows the potential of learning technologies in education. While watching this video, I am reminded of constructivism as the presenter reminds us that the children were usually left without supervision during use of the computers. They were left to construct their own understandings of the hardware and softwares, and acquire information from the world wide web at their own discretion.