digital divide

This video was very interesting and had much information about a school for technology, and stories behind it's students being there, and stories of what they had to go through to be able to go and maintain that lifestyle. 

This video deals with technologies and shows differences in lifestyle between different cultures. It relates to our library studies in that not all people are capable of having access to such things, or it is at least a little more difficult. This was shown by one girl saving up all her money for a couple years to buy her own computer. She didn't have the resources and funding to be able to just go out and have a computer. She had to work full-time along with going to school to support herself. Another man that was going to the school seemed to have no troubles with resources. His family was wealthy enough for him to get by. These differences in culture show us this digital divide.

Like libraries, this school can also be a way to bridge the digital divide. Its a place for people to come together and share knowledge or share technologies. In a place with a bad library system it would still be a divide from a place with better technologies, but within that small community within a bad library system, it is still a place to connect and gain at least a little knowledge of technology. This school acts in the same way that it is bringing people together for the common goal to gain more information to be able to use in the world.

The digital divide is evident in the video even though all the kids go to the same school. Some of the kids had been around computers before they went to the school and they had some background as to what they were and how they work. For one of the others, when he went to the school, it was the first time he had used a computer. This clearly demonstrates the digital divide by kids who were the same age, and were going to the same school had completely different backgrounds with computer knowledge/usage.