ICT tips & tools, tracks & trails and... questioning them all !

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"Doctorow here proves he’s smart, funny, and good at accessibly boiling down issues he’s passionate about." Regina Schroeder (Booklist)

"In the 1990s, the term “digital divide” emerged to describe technology’s haves and have-nots. It inspired many efforts to get the latest computing tools into the hands of all Americans, particularly low-income families.

Those efforts have indeed shrunk the divide. But they have created an unintended side effect, one that is surprising and troubling to researchers and policy makers and that the government now wants to fix.

As access to devices has spread, children in poorer families are spending considerably more time than children from more well-off families using their television and gadgets to watch shows and videos, play games and connect on social networking sites, studies show. [...]"