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Direct linkBoshier, Roger; Kolpakova, Yulia; Klinkhamer, Sooz – Educational Media International, 2004
The digital divide is generally thought to arise from socio-economic disparities. However, there is more to it. Eye colour is a factor. In this study, the 16 multiple-choice item Internet Quiz was administered to 3,208 respondents in the Lower Mainland (Vancouver) of British Columbia, Canada. Blue and hazel-eyed people knew significantly more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Educational Technology, Physical Characteristics
Boshier, Roger; Kow, Janet Kushner; Huang, Yan – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2006
Vancouver high school honors and university award lists are crowded with Asian names. But do these abilities in face-to-face settings extend to the Internet, which is the centerpiece of distributed learning? The purpose of this study was to measure the extent to which Internet knowledge varied as a function of age, sex, and language spoken at…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Internet, Age, Sex
