Educational technology can equal the playing field for students who live in different places. While students in cities might have access to major museums, government offices, and other places to visit on field trips, students in rural areas may have to drive further or miss out on certain opportunities that students in cities get to experience. The same can be true for students who live in the city. Students in the city might not know what life in the country is like, and it might be harder for them to understand the experience of people who don't live in cities. With technology, the same information is available to a classroom in New York and a classroom in Alaska.
Students can have the same material come through a computer scene regardless of where they live.
The limitations of educational technology exist in some of the same areas where the advantages exist. While educational technology can level the playing field in many ways, it can also create bigger gaps between rich and poor. Some schools have enough money to provide every kid in the school with a computer, while other schools don't have any computers available to kids. This problem extends to the home. If half the students in a class have computers and internet access at home, and the other half does not, any homework assignment that could call for the use of the internet would give the kids with computers a huge advantage over the kids who don't have computers.