{"id":382,"date":"2010-12-15T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T20:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2010-12-15T13:30:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T20:30:26","slug":"internet-access-as-a-basic-human-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/382","title":{"rendered":"Internet access as a basic human right"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written before about education as a basic human right<\/a> and about OER as a tool for advancing the equity agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today, I stumbled upon AHumanRight.org<\/a>, a group that believes that Internet access is a basic human right and is trying to buy a satellite<\/a> to increase access. Wow. In the midst of a holiday season that makes me more skeptical than usual about people’s capacity for good, this strikes me as an incredibly big (and good) idea.<\/p>\n

In the current world, trying to ensure education as a basic human right might be best achieved by gaining universal Internet access<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For many kids in the world, access to Internet could be the greatest boost they get.<\/p>\n

And in developed countries, like the U.S. where I currently live, folks in ed reform are debating the merits of formal education vis a vis its capacity to produce a generation prepared for today’s world’s challenges. No one argues that access to the Internet is essential to preparing a 21st century citizenry.<\/p>\n

Not that I’m arguing that the Internet could or should replace traditional education…but achieving universal Internet access seems like a much more attainable goal than gaining universal secondary enrollment (let alone graduation) and\/or fixing the current educational system.<\/p>\n

Regardless of what you think about schools today, buying a satellite to increase Internet access for under-served populations<\/a> is certainly a goal we can all get behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve written before about education as a basic human right and about OER as a tool for advancing the equity agenda. Today, I stumbled upon AHumanRight.org, a group that believes that Internet access is a basic human right and is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,5],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-education-as-a-basic-human-right","tag-oer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6mlV-6a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}