Many low-income students use only their phone to get online. What are they missing? - 4 views
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Jennifer Maddrell on 05 Mar 16"Although nine out of 10 low-income families have Internet access at home, most are underconnected: that is, they have "mobile-only" access - they are able to connect to the Internet only through a smart device, such as a tablet or a smartphone."
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Vanessa Vaile on 06 Mar 16Inge de Waard's m-learning courses addressed -- and discussed -- this point. It applies to third health training as much as it urban poverty in the U.S. I also recall an article several years back about inner city youth and parents hunting down hotspots for doing homework and assignments. Both are part of the "new" digital divide ~ not that the "old" one ever went away, claims of the privileged to the contrary. Anyway, I saved the links (hopefully on Diggo) and will look for them. PS I've been using #openabe and #adulted but will add OpenABEMOOC to collection -- blessed be the bulk edit function
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helensimpson on 06 Mar 16Designing a website that also looks good on mobiles is known as responsive web design. There is a mooc on Coursera that teaches this. https://www.coursera.org/learn/website-coding http://www.html5rocks.com/en/mobile/responsivedesign/ http://www.zingdesign.com/responsive-website-design-cheatsheet1/