In yesterday’s entry I mentioned Warschauer’s suggestion that the divides of EFL/ESL, the digital and technology divides have been overcome, and my personal objection to it.
During the first online chat session for my ICT course, the persistence of the digital divide was eloquently demonstrated. Telecommunications facilities in my region of Oman were interrupted for several hours, resulting in my late arrival and some of my classmates’ inability to log in at all. Here, like in many places worldwide, internet access is crippled by infrastructure problems.
In the discussion, some agreed with Warschauer to the point of saying that internet access is now universal. From my tenuous foothold on this side of the digital divide, I am quite simply gobsmacked. Somewhere there exists a world where that is true. I haven’t visited it.
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Yes! Some people evidently have not been to 3rd world countries before!!!!
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