The very concept of ICONN helps achieve digital equity; it is an aggregate of databases available to schools and towns by the state of Connecticut in order to provide universal access to quality information, no matter the income level. All of the information is in databases that would generally only be available through a password protected program that would cost CT residents much more to buy individually. Though digital equity is also based on how the information is used, ICONN removes the first barrier to equal education - access to quality information. ICONN also organizes the databases with descriptions of the uses for each, helping students to narrow their searches to the most useful resources.
As a special education teacher, I would be a consultant for general education teachers to create lesson plans that help students with all different needs. ICONN provides the Educator's Reference, filled with full-text, peer-reviewed articles to keep up to date on new strategies. I also like the Discoveries database for students learning researching skills. The database is filled with encyclopedia listings about various topics, which allow students to collect general information for simple projects. I also appreciate breadth of the databases; they are a resource for obtaining reliable information on topics that either require depth beyond google searches, or to decipher which source has the correct information.
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