The Importance of Digital Literacy Training to Social Inclusion

This paper was written for Michael Stephen's fall LIS 768 course through the College of St. Catherine, in St. Paul, Minnesota. After reading Palfrey and Gasser's Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives, I was overwhelmed with the idea that those in the participation gap were actually falling further behind in their educational opportunities due to technology. This was the inspiration for this paper.