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My topic is about how the digital divide is not being fixed amongst the older generation. Also about how there are programs trying to fix this problem but about how these programs are not being utilized to their fullest potential. This topic is important not only just to the older generation themselves because they need these skills for communication with family, jobs, and possibly just to enjoy something. This problem also causes the technology producers themselves because they could be held back from making something even better because not everyone is on the same level with technology. This becomes a problem because the technology companies do not want to keep the older easier technology around but they are somewhat forced so that they still have easier things for people. Although this doesn’t seem to be the case, it seems more older people are suffering because they can only get access to the newer harder technology that they are not used to and can’t learn the newest additions as quickly as the other generations who have grown up around these technologies.
This research that is out there for this growing problem strikes up its own problem as well. These sites and journals think they have found all of the reasons why the elders still lack with technology skills and they talk about different solutions that are out there. But none of the solutions that they seem to fix any of the problems they had just listed. If there are all of these programs and solutions out there why isn’t anything changing.

Reflect on your research found to date

The research I have found is pretty good, the tone they set is casul. They are sort of as if they are having just as casual conversation with their concerns of the older generation and what's stopping them from filling the gaps of the divide. The other tone that I can see in this research is concern and worry. The authors are stressing their concerns and trying to push their views onto others to try and get others to solve this divide problem.

Some of the Problems I see with this research is that some of it can be based more on opinion. Not many of these sources are written by the odler generation themselves, so who are these younger people to talk about this problem? In order to get what I need out of this research I will need to see things from the older generation themselves.

As far as my research on what is being done like the classes and programs being offered is great to understand solutions but bad with explaining whether or not these programs are working and if the older generations is even taking these classes and utilizing the programs that are available to them. As well as what is being done to inform the generations that these programs even exist.

Ch. 7&8 quiz definitional vs. fact research

My Core 4 research does fall into both definition and fact. One of my sources was done as an experiment over the course of 16 months with low income adults this research falls into the fact category because it deals with specific facts that they found in this experiment. According to the book Everything’s an argument “Arguments of fact do much of the heavy lifting in our world. Some of them do the important task of reporting on what has been recently discovered or become known.”In this source title Instructional Set and Internet Use by Low-Income Adults, It dealt with the attitudes and internet skills found in the time period based on 2 groups one that was given the internet’s communication tools and the other group was given the internet’s information skills. Although this source doesn’t contain exact statistics it does contain valuable facts found. As far as all of my other research it does not deal with fact but yet the definition and opinions. According to the book Everything’s an argument it states that “Definitional arguments don’t just appear out of the blue; they evolve out of the occasions and conversations of daily life, both public and private.” In my other research they discuss mostly the reasons behind why the older generations don’t want to learn computers and none of their examples are backed up with fact although they seem like common sense and to be true I would still place them in the definitional category solely on the fact that it seems like opinion and conversational. As well as my other research sites that deal with the solutions to the digital divide they are not discussing what is proven to work but merely stating what might work and the programs available.