How can digital education cultivate and encourage diversity, equity, and inclusion?
How can digital education help overcome inequality and disadvantage?
"Diversity and Inclusion in the Learning Enterprise" Robbin Chapman
Learner
Educator
Policymaker
"The second significant transformation is driven by the increasing cultural and cognitive diversity within classrooms, globally and particularly within multi-ethnic societies" (multiple citations)
DIVERSITY
variety of human identities
multiple characteristics
includes race, sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity, $, religious beliefs (& cultural beliefs addition me)
learning styles & teaching styles
educational experience
language acquisition
physical & cognitive ability
"socially mediated construct of knowledge...actually impact a learner's thinking processes and development of future consciousness"
CULTURE
experience design influenced by creator's cultural assumptions
highly influences impact of learning technologies
rise of awareness regarding subcultures
Culturally rich and immersive practices & curriculum
Tech needs to be intentionsl!!
"Students move through content like the human gatherers of nuts and berries of the past foraged through ancient forests..."
Curators of Knowledge (no longer the keepers or gatherers)
Chart 16.7.1-4
"weaving together of technology and pedagogy requires rethinking" (last paragraph)
"Equity, Access, and the Digital Divide in Learning Technologies" by Marshall Jones, Rebecca Bridges
EQUITY versus ACCESS
Business component of Universities and Colleges & Library systems
"Digital Divide"
of information
of devices
OERs = Open Educational Resources
Creative Commons License (example)
licensing agreements
Open-Source materials
WA State community agreements & usernames, etc
Dell / Apple / Microsoft / Google
"hole in the wall project"
self-guided inquiry = formal instruction!!!
LESSONS LEARNED
Planning matters
More than machines
Plan well, but be flexile
Leadership matters
Focus on learning
Be viable and realistic
Open access