Digital divide has created problems in current education in schools.

School is the place to teach students knowledge. However, schools tend to focus on traditional education regardless of the necessity of education on new technologies.

New technologies are developed and introduced into our daily lives and works, which means that students have to face these technologies and even the more advanced technologies in the future when they come out of school. But if they don’t have a basic knowledge and awareness of them, they are unable to catch up with the rapid developed world and technologies. For example, many companies require employees who computer skills and any other new technical skills.

However, because of digital divide, many schools don’t have access to new technologies and teachers, who have generation gap of technologies. So students can’t receive technology education in school and that leads to digital divide of the next generation. This is a vicious cycle and must be broken.

Since many parents also have the generation gap of technologies, the education on new technologies is relying on the students themselves and the schools. So if students don't have access and knewledge of these new technologies, they will not be able to teach their children neither. Parents' technological education on children will fade out in our life.

For students, they have to know the importance of learning new technologies so they can learn technologies voluntarily through various sources like books and the internet. It will be better that they have the basic skills of computer operation, do online research, and the skills of using various software by the time they graduate from high school.

For schools, they have to provide the opportunities for students to able to access to new technologies and technology education. They need computer labs, high speed internet, and teachers to teach new technologies. Local or federal government has to support and improve education by providing technical devices like computers. It is also a good idea for teacheers to teach students some more advanced computing skills like Java programming. It can improve the students’ logical thinking skills, design and problem solving skills.

There are also problems in school with full access to computers and high speed internet.

Students are distracted from education by the contents on the internet. They are addicted to the internet, and always go to websites like Facebook and MTV websites instead of using the internet for research and studies.

Therefore, school use application to block contents online, and that creates another problems.

When students are doing research of using the internet to study, useful sources and websites are blocked. They can’t access many good websites as well as bad ones.

It is hard to monitor the internet accesses of students correctly without blocking good websites, but without the internet monitor, the purpose of equipping new technologies is not achieved.

So it is also important to teach the students the right way to use the internet. Not only students need to be able to access to new technologies, but the education of using them is also important. Technologies have to be used in the right way, so the teachers also have to able to teach students the moral of new technologies.

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