The Digital Divide in Education: Navigating Learning Inequities

A young Black girl in a pink shirt and jeans sitting on a gray couch with a laptop on her lap

The digital divide is the gap between those who have access to technology, the internet and digital resources, digital literacy skills and those who do not. It has been a contentious topic for several decades. One of the greatest examples of an impact caused by the divide has been on education, especially for students who lack adequate internet access and the resources that access provides students.