Everyone is getting a computer and internet

I would guess that the reason why half of my students do not have a computer and internet connection at home is because they are a low SES family. Therefore, using some of the same resources that were used in the article How to Use Social Media for Social Change I would create several different platforms to try to get the computer.
A. I would use a blog to tell the world the situation about my classroom.
B. I would create a group in Facebook whether through Causes or by itself to raise awareness.
C. I would also email politicians.
In each of these three I would include information about how technology is incorporated in our classrooms to facilitate learning and have students become more critical thinkers. As well as emphasizing how our world is so dependent on technology that children should be very computer literate. I would mention that it helps people to be advocates for social change.
Hopefully this will get business and government attention and we can either get grants or businesses are willing to provide the computers. The only problem with this is whether the business will provide computers for those who are currently enrolled in the class. They can probably also provide laptops or computers that could be loaned at the beginning of the year and returned at the end. But there is still a high risk and problem with that because you never know the conditions in which the computers are going to be returned in.
I think that the best way to deal with the internet issue is to directly talk to a government official so that low income families, who have children in school can have government help. Just like there are government assisted phone services, they can extend it to provide internet as well.

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