Students from Jane Addams Elementary School created their own PowerPoint Slide Show in which they defined the "Digital Divide" and discussed ideas for enabling greater access to technology for all. Click here to download the slide show.

• Definition of the "Digital Divide"

We think the "Digital Divide" is the difference between people who have access to more technology and those who don’t.

Our school would be different if we didn’t have computers.

Computers help us save time.

It would take longer to do research and we would have to ask our librarian where the books are in the library or use the card catalogue system. We would have to write everything by hand. We would not have access to some information we find on the Web.

• Ideas for enabling greater access to technology

Here are 3 ways of how we thought we could get more technology to our school or to schools that don’t have much technology now.

#1- Fundraise

#2- Talk to superintendent of school and ask that more money be spent on technology.

#3- Write letters to our governor explaining why we need more money in education for technology.