{"id":23789,"date":"2024-10-16T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T11:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digilearn\/?p=23789"},"modified":"2024-10-16T12:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T11:22:25","slug":"recommended-reading-tackling-digital-exclusion-audit-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digilearn\/2024\/10\/16\/recommended-reading-tackling-digital-exclusion-audit-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended reading: Tackling Digital Exclusion – Audit Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This blog post is a summary of key points in Audit Scotland’s report that might be useful for educational settings, such as schools, nurseries and local authorities to consider.<\/p>\n

Read the full report with this link <\/span>Tackling digital exclusion (audit.scot).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cDigital exclusion is strongly associated with poverty and people with certain protected characteristics.\u201d<\/span><\/b>\u00a0

Anyone working with groups that may be at-risk of digital exclusion should consider the potential barriers in place to them accessing and using such technology. If there are analogue alternatives, these should be as effective and readily available, along with support, training and access provision for people to engage with them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Where this is not the case, the Royal Society (2022) talk about the d<\/strong><\/span>ouble loop of poverty <\/strong>where analogue factors are entrenched by digital ones to doubly affect those at risk of exclusion.<\/p>\n

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Some of the impacts of digital exclusion that are more likely to surface in education are:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n