Sponsored by the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy in Collaboration with the Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST)
Thursday, November 20, 2008
5:15 P.M. - 7:30 P.M.*
The Standard Club
320 S. Plymouth Court | Chicago, IL 60604
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Lecture:The Educational Consequences of the Digital Divide view presentation (PDF)
Robert W. Fairlie
Professor, Department of Economics, The University of California, Santa Cruz
Panel:
Hardik Bhatt
Chief Information Officer and Commissioner of Department of Innovation & Technology, City of Chicago
Eszter Hargittai
Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University; Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
Moderator:
Ofer Malamud
Assistant Professor, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies
Nearly 30 percent of children in the United States do not have access to the Internet in their homes. In contrast, computer and Internet use in the nation's schools is ubiquitous with an average of roughly four computers per classroom in nearly all instructional classrooms in U.S. public schools. The federal government has also made the provision of computer and Internet access to school children a top priority. The increasing reliance on computers and the Internet for classroom instruction, delivering educational content, and completing homework assignments suggests that disparities in home access to technology or the so-called Digital Divide may have implications for educational inequality. Professor Fairlie will discuss the causes and consequences of the Digital Divide for educational outcomes globally and in the United States.
Click here for full abstract of Professor Fairlie's lecture, The Educational Consequences of the Digital Divide.
This lecture is by invitation only and requires registration. For more information, contact Laurel Spindel, Associate Director, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy at ljspinde@uchicago.edu or 773.702.3402.
