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Closing the digital divide with service-learning.
Abstract
Digital disparity exists among those who differ in socioeconomic status, educational background, gender, race, and age. As part of a digital citizenship course, students in a private Midwestern university participated in a semester service-learning lab tutoring senior citizens about Information Technology (IT). Students studied the ethics of volunteerism and the impact of digital citizenship. In a two-year study of student reflections (N = 67), data were analyzed with ATLAS-ti for Search Institute Internal Assets[c]. Findings reveal commitment to IT instruction, value of human interaction, new understanding of reciprocation, and the significance of an ...
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