Digital equity sets out to remove barriers to entry and participation by ensuring everyone has the technological capacity to participate in these online spaces. Still, what exactly is digital equity and how can educators support it in classrooms, schools, and districts? In order to unpack and better understand digital equity, this whitepaper analyzes digital equity through the lens of four specific digital divides: access and connectivity, digital readiness, digital use, and representation; explores potential solutions to each; and offers example of how educators are already addressing these in their classroom.
Learning.com (n.d.) What Four Divides Teach About Digital Equity, an Analysis. https://resources.learning.com/hubfs/Marketing/Resources%20Page/Whitepapers/What-Four-Divides-Teach-About-Digital-Equity-an-Analysis.pdf (accessed April 17, 2020).