Whose problem is Digital Divide?

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As I mentioned in previous blogs, lately, I have been thinking a lot about the existence of a digital divide. Mainly because I am privy to an abundance of information on how technology is continuing to transform and revolutionize the way we learn. However, globally the majority of world's citizens do not have access to basic necessities, much less educational technology. I was speaking with a fellow education researcher recently and he believes that educators should not be concerned about the existence of a digital divide. His comments left me asking, "whose problem is it anyways?".

About digital divide,Christopher D. Sessums wrote,

"Funding issues for educational technology are not a teacher's problem, right? Many participants in a class I am teaching seem to believe that they must wait for someone else to solve this problem of finding adequate resources to ensure every student has Internet access at home. It is not knowledge of the issues that these teachers lack, but it could be a time and/or leadership constraint. After all, what incentives are there for teachers to work individually or better yet in unison to get community members involved in supporting learning?

In this sense I feel teachers' complacency is part of the reason we have a digital divide--that is, it's not my problem that my kids cannot access the Internet from home."

With teachers these days overly consumed with standardized tests and rigid accountability requirements, is it their responsibility to also fight the battle to eliminate the digital divide that exist?