"All teachers must provide equal access to the digital world to all learners."
It's hard to know exactly what to make of a credo like that. It certainly doesn't mean teachers must provide the materials to access the digital world -- I'm pretty sure any public school teacher would have a good laugh at that thought these days.
Instead, I think it is referring to providing the confidence and competence to access the digital world. Not every student will have a computer available at home or in school, but every student will certainly need to know how to use computers, and other technologies -- in school, in the workplace and everywhere between. So it's the job of the teacher to make sure all students not only know how to access and operate new technologies, but why that knowledge is necessary to survive in the digital world.
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