In recent years, government, scholars, and the media have heralded the emergence of a new social problem, the digital divide. This term refers to the phenomenon of unequal access to personal computer technology, a divide separating families who have computers and access to the Internet at home from families who do not. People who already suffer economic or social disadvantages are likely to experience even worse problems in the future because they are being excluded …showed first 75 words of 890 total…

…showed last 75 words of 890 total…reading and math skills are more effective. Schools have to find a way to use computers more often when doing class assignments because by doing so, they help prepare these kids for the real world which is dominated by computers. There are negative things of computer use that may affect our children, but we have to realize that the positive things like better education and better life sure outweigh a lot of those negative ones.