Week 8 - Article 5 Criticism

This article looks at approach to the 'digital divide', so far we've looked at the young and old, who has access and who doesn't and no its education against entertainment. Prof. Jim Lengel explains its useful for their to be technology present within education, however when he asked his pupils about 'what they actually know how to do with a computer', he gives some of his students responses to which one of them responded 'I do instant messenger with my friends, we email, and I surf the web. For what? Oh. movies, news, sports, that kind of stuff' because his pupils didnt mention anything about using computers for educational purposes, it seems like he's basing this one bit of information (which by the way is not representative of all of his students im sure), and going off on a massive tangent, saying how young people dont know how to use their computers effectively when it come to using them for learning. The fact that his lack of statistics and representative data ensure that his findings dont seem professional, its his actual conclusion. I know that i use my computer for entertainment purposes, by i always know how to use it productively. His theory lacks references and statistics and therefore makes this article seem unacademic and therefore hard to believe.