Digital Divide and Digital Equality

I really liked this module and thought it was insightful. Personally, I never thought that the gap between  the type of access people/students get from the internet could be some sort of divide. It is funny how concerns have moved from whether people have computers with internet access to what they actually do with the internet access they have. I did have concerns about young people using the internet or their devices mainly for entertainment purpose which I felt made them lazy and less productive. I thought they needed to be taught how to use the internet effectively and not just for entertainment, but I assumed  one of the ways to do that was making certain websites inaccessible to students and telling them not to visit these sites.  From the readings, I have come to understand that this is not necessarily a good approach.
From the voice thread discussions, one of the points practically pointed by everyone else is  that educators should stand out as bridges from 'new digital divide' to digital equality. Students need to be taught how to use the internet because most of them do not know how. The advent of mobile devices has made this task difficult as students mainly use their devices for entertainment, which is the more reasos why educators need to provide them and teach them strategies to use the internet positively. Where this gap cannot be filled at home, it is our role as educators to fill it in, in our schools, through our guidiance, and modelling.