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According to GoGuardian (2020), equitable access can be explained as the ability of students having access to technology and information regardless or despite their ethnicity, soci-economic status, age, physical ability or any other quality. Furthermore access to technology is not limited to devices and connectivity to students but it also incorporates the assurance that students have the opportunity to learn from teachers. Equitable access like any other subject matter incorporates issues. Four major issues of this subject matter include: 1.Geographical location poses a major issue since some persons reside in some communities where it is almost impossible for them to connect to the internet. Also there are some areas where electricity has not yet been born. 2.Some students may not have it financially to purchase devices such as laptops. Also students may find it difficult to purchase data plans to access the interent 3.Limited hardware and software may pose an is

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   Technology integration in my opinion is a very smart and efficient way to bring across concepts in the classroom since we are living in a world where technology is the order of the day. Classmates, do you remember a few years ago teachers in particular had a choice of whether they wanted to integrate technology or not? All this changed as the Covid 19 pandemic has forced the use of technology upon us. Today we use technology 95% of the time to properly do assignments and we are also involved in online classes.     From birth majority of children are given tablets where they play games whether it be educational or not. Remember classmates Vygotsky spoke on the theory of situated cognition which speaks on knowledge is situated in activity bound to social, cultural and physical contexts. Now with such knowledge isn't it difficult to not integrate technology in education when learners are already accustomed to it?      From my personal observations with young family members, I h