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The Fourth industrial revolution and the digital divide

The Fourth industrial revolution and the digital divide The Fourth industrial revolution and the digital divide Donna Ellen Frederick Twenty years ago, many public learning environments. There was, for toward the use of computers in schools libraries in North America and example, a “computer club” in her high and libraries. It was clear that at the end elsewhere around the world were school whose members were typically of the 1980s there was a new digital actively involved with addressing a new intelligent but often unathletic divide in the education and library “problem” which came to be known as adolescent boys. Hence, a new fields. This divide, she observed, the “digital divide”. The digital divide is unfortunate and unfair stereotype was existed largely between the older a gap between those who have access to born. One of the ways that the established professionals who often computers and the internet and those stereotype was “unfortunate” is that it took an “if it’s not broken, why fix it?” who do not. This gap is the result of created an identity wherein computers attitude and their younger colleagues several barriers confronting socially and and technology was not considered who saw new technology holding great economically disadvantaged persons, feminine. For example, the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Library Hi Tech News Emerald Publishing

The Fourth industrial revolution and the digital divide

Frederick, Donna Ellen
Library Hi Tech News , Volume 36 (7): 6 – Sep 20, 2019
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The Fourth industrial revolution and the digital divide Donna Ellen Frederick Twenty years ago, many public learning environments. There was, for toward the use of computers in schools libraries in North America and example, a “computer club” in her high and libraries. It was clear that at the end elsewhere around the world were school whose members were typically of the 1980s there was a new digital actively involved with addressing a new intelligent but often unathletic divide in the education and library “problem” which came to be known as adolescent boys. Hence, a new fields. This divide, she observed, the “digital divide”. The digital divide is unfortunate and unfair stereotype was existed largely between the older a gap between those who have access to born. One of the ways that the established professionals who often computers and the internet and those stereotype was “unfortunate” is that it took an “if it’s not broken, why fix it?” who do not. This gap is the result of created an identity wherein computers attitude and their younger colleagues several barriers confronting socially and and technology was not considered who saw new technology holding great economically disadvantaged persons, feminine. For example, the

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Published: Sep 20, 2019

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