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Record W2264917829 · doi:10.29173/mruer312

Defeating the digital divide

2015· article· en· W2264917829 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Jessica Byrne

Bibliographic record

VenueMount Royal Undergraduate Education Review · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicChild Development and Digital Technology
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVariety (cybernetics)Digital divideMultimediaComputer scienceWonderPsychologyInformation and Communications TechnologyInternet privacyWorld Wide WebSocial psychology

Abstract

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In my personal experience I witnessed a discrepancy between what was available to schools and students from high and low socioeconomic areas. This made me wonder about their access to digital technologies, specifically how the digital divide affects education and how I can help as an educator. Using information from background research, an anonymous survey completed by my peers and current teachers, and an interview with an expert, I was able to conclude that digital technologies are an effective educational tool used to enrich students’ learning experiences. This can be achieved using a variety of different strategies and tools, including Smart technology, tablets, video blogs, and experiments. Educators should participate in professional development opportunities to help lessen the digital divide. This in-depth knowledge will give them the skills to effectively use digital technologies in their classrooms. Schools can also ensure students have access to technology to balance any lack of access at home.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.036

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.006
Scholarly communication0.0040.008
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0030.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.327
Teacher spread0.288 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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