Beside the divide in Internet use and in the context of technological infrastructure, there are other types of digital inequalities that move beyond internet access such as information literacy.
I think that it is interesting to read that not just having internet causes a divide, but it is also the digital literacy skills that go with it. I feel like digital literacy is a missed component especially when I think of the digital divide.
Although connected learning can apply to any age group, we focus here on adoles-cents and, secondarily, on young adults.
This is interesting, it reminds you how much changes are going on and how things will and have looked different for generations to come and go.
Young people today have the world at their fingertips in ways that were unimaginable just a generation ago.
I think this really emphasizes the ease it is to gain connections and have learning opportunities available and accessible. It reminds me of the comparison of how people don't need a degree as much anymore.
Identity is at the core of all social interactions.
I found this to be interesting because just as identity is important, it comes along with how you are perceived on the internet. Page two talks about being social is part of human nature but as this article goes on to say, how you are seen (identity) ties into your social relationships. I find it interesting that this paragraph highlights how we care and devote so much time and energy to how understood, but its not always like that online. Being online can lead to anonymity and more access to create a fake reality (social media can be fake), so it makes me wonder is there a movement for more personal casual social interactions within social media? (such as casual instagraming?- or is all for the aesthetics)