How do we make sure they can get to it?

I love the fact that so many people blog about education to keep us thinking.

This morning I read a post on 2¢ Worth from David Warlick which was a response to a Twitter from John Pederson about ccLearn which has a mission to "minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers."

The post and and comments reflected the feeling many of us have that publishers need to get on board with the fact that people are making valuable educational information available online.

My comment was "I would love to see the textbook publishers catch on this issue and the fact that they don’t control educational information as much as they used to. Hopefully, I’ll also be able to one day solve the issue of how to handle those students (almost all of mine) who have no computer or Internet access at home. For the use of Creative Commons & Open Source web content to be truly equitable, we have to do a better job of helping students to gain access to it outside of school as well."

Maybe this is an argument for parent education. Even if those students don't have a computer at home, all (or nearly all) have televisions and telephones. If we can convince the parents of the value of the Internet and all that is available on it (in multiple languages) then maybe we can convince them to invest in a computer and basic Internet access.