Is it possible not to divide? + - =

Well after 3 weeks away on prac this morning's lesson was a great way in which we were all able to raise our observations and queries regarding integrating technology into the classroom. I found speaking about the digital divide extremely interesting looking more broadly at the divide in schools between students that have access to a variety of technologies at home and school and those that don't, to the the teachers who want to learn and develop their skills in using technology and those that don't, but even more interestingly looking exclusively within our very own classroom. In an open discussion my peers and I reflected on our individual experiences on prac and using technology, the divide was obvious for example in my own experience I have now been fortunate enough to go to a school that had an IWB and one that didn't this has widen my perspective whereas other students haven't been able to even experience having any technology in their classrooms and the others have only had technology rich experiences. At uni we are all supposed to be learning how to become teachers on an even keel yet in a class of about 30 there was already a digital divide. Is this giving us a little preview into just how easy it is for a digital divide to be created and just how hard it is to avoid?

Thanks to this flickr'