>The Digital Divide and the Knowledge Deficit
By Peter Meyer 03/22/2011
“Anthony Orsini, a middle school principal from Ridgewood, NJ, talked about the media frenzy surrounding his memo to parents advising them to keep their kids away from social-networking sites.”
To walk from a conversation about the need for a common core curriculum to one about turning schools into digital gaming parlors modeled after Grand Theft Auto – well, it’s what we in the business call a head jerk. But the good thing about the recently concluded marathon conference at the Hechinger Institute (sponsored by theMacAruthur Foundation, which has a major digital learning initiative) was that you didn’t have to walk anywhere.
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