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Week 3: Literacy and Technology, How to help close the gap - Coggle Diagram
Week 3: Literacy and Technology
Uncomfortable conversations with a black man
Families impact communities, communities impact states, states impact nations, and nations impact the world.
Do you have a bias?
Opportunity Gap
What is it?
The Opportunity Gap focuses on the ways in which public education systems create and sustain an unequal or inequitable distribution of resources and opportunities that contribute to student success. This alternate perspective, the Opportunity Gap, situates the problem as one with the system.
Inequality due to income, race, gender, communities, and families.
Two aspects of the opportunity gap:
The Culture Gap: Students of color and students in poverty are more likely to experience a school environment that isn’t safe, inclusive, or supportive.
The Instruction Gap: Students of color and students in poverty are more likely to experience rote, low-level instruction that emphasizes memorization.
How can technology help
when implemented properly -can produce significant gains in student achievement and boost engagement, particularly among students most at risk.
Technology alone will not help fix the problem. It is not a replacement for teacher.
strong gains in achievement occur by pairing technology with classroom teachers who provide real-time support and encouragement to underserved students
Instead of placing trust in the latest gadget, faith must be placed in the expertise of teachers to sustain classrooms that reflect in the expertise of teacher to sustain classrooms that reflect the contexts of learning that are encountered outside of schools and in the real world.
How to help close the gap
deep systemic work around adult beliefs and mindsets,
intensive capacity building to design quality learning experiences,
explicit work to build empowering school cultures and effective leadership