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The digital divide is happening because of so much internet focus in schools. Some schools are not getting the needed technology because they do not have funds for it.

There is a slow response of publishers to digitize textbooks to ebooks in order to consider the benefits and disadvantages of switching from print to digital. One big problem is how to distribute the technology equally in order to benefit students in schools.

This article focused on differential access to computers in school and home in the lives of kindergarten and first grade students. Super interesting article!! 

This resource provides five ways that readers can use iPads in the classroom. These ways include intervention, enrichment, assistive technology, digital literacy, and for organizing resources -and for reading. The author provides specific examples of ways that iPads have been implemented into a classroom.

In Chandler, Arizona the school district spent 33$ million to expand technological resources in the classroom. Unfortunately, test scores are not rising even with all of this new technological equipment. Technology and an overemphasis on digital skills is replacing the use of math, reading, and writing fundamentals. Search criteria: technology in the classroom site:nytimes.com