Russell Humphrey
Computer applications
Rhonda Yeager
8-24-2020
Critical thinking # 1
The digital divide simply is the gap between people who have access to the internet and
other technology and then those people who do not have access to the internet and other
technology. An example of this is when the covid-19 pandemic really started picking up in
march and closed school the students who didn’t have easy access to the internet or a laptop
struggled to complete the year from home. The ones who had internet and technology had it
way easier and could appropriately complete their work with no issues, however the other
students had to deal with all kinds of paper and have to send it in folders and hope that their
work didn’t get lost in the mess of other students papers. We can push to eliminate this by