CREATING EQUITY SPACES FOR DIGITALLY FLUENT KIDS

Digital tools provide youth with powerful ways to extend their worlds and to enhance their capabilities in interacting with them. In a review of recent literature on youths’ engagement of digital tools, Lyman (2004) suggests that there are three main opportunities in the general domain of digital tool use by youth – communication, imagination, and cultural production among digital kids. Dr. Lyman also identified a key barrier: the digital divide.