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Call for Diversity in Ed Tech Design
In late December, I attended an educational technology conference hosted at New York University. Rather than highlighting current research, the goal of the conference was to explore the future of the ed...
Categories: Edtech, EquityWatchworthy Wednesday: New Book Questions Tech Assumptions
“Giving voice to the voiceless” is a familiar phrase, says Meryl Alper, author of “Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality” (MIT Press, 2017). “It has Biblical origins, is foundational to journalism,...
Category: EquityWatchworthy Wednesday: Incarcerated Parents Connect With Kids Through Reading
“If you stare at a painting and do not see yourself there, paint your own portrait.” — Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee, “Giant Steps to Change the World” At her neighborhood...
Category: EquityCreating a Safe Space for Women in STEM
As part of our continuing series that profiles members involved with the Center for Solutions to Online Violence, which was the recipient of funding from the Digital Media and Learning Trust Challenge,...
Category: EquityCritical Civic Innovation in Action via PhotoVoice
In the wake of last month’s election, many Americans of all backgrounds are fearful about the direction in which the U.S. will be heading under President-elect Trump in areas ranging from education...
Categories: Civic Engagement, EquityWatchworthy Wednesday: New Report Features Connected Learning in Libraries
In their just released research report, “Connected Libraries: Surveying the Current Landscape and Charting a Path to the Future,” scholars from the University of Maryland and University of Washington examine the different...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityToward a Pedagogy of Repair and Care
Note: This is the introduction to a four-part mini-series that looks at a growing dissonance between the politics that we espouse in our classes and the realities that our students observe in...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityWatchworthy Wednesday: Closing the Homework Gap
Franny Millen was in the 7th grade four years ago when she realized that many of her classmates couldn't do their homework because they didn't have a computer or internet access at home....
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityHow to Socially Engineer Voluntary Integration
In my first blog post for DML, I proposed that parents in school choice markets interpret and act on school performance data in ways that reinforce racial and socioeconomic segregation. New York...
Category: EquityWatchworthy Wednesday: 2016 DML Keynote Recap
In case you weren’t among the nearly 500 people at the 7th annual Digital Media and Learning Conference last week at the University of California, Irvine, here are highlights from the keynotes....
Categories: Edtech, EquityWhy It’s Time to Let Go of ‘Meritocracy’
Meritocracy seems like an unassailable concept. Who could argue with a belief that the 'brightest and the best' should reach the highest levels in society? In a heavily class-conscious society (like England),...
Category: EquityCreating Culturally Sensitive Solutions to Digital Violence
As web materials for the Center for Solutions to Online Violence go live this month, at DML Central we are continuing to run profiles of those who participated in the DML Competition...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityIn a recent trip to Sub-Saharan Africa, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent time seeing up close the country’s burgeoning technology and social innovation-driven ecosystem. During his visit to countries like Nigeria and Nairobi, Zuckerberg...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityWatchworthy Wednesday: New Series Features Extraordinary Women
Emma Goldman was born in 1869 in Russia. When she was 15, her father tried to force her to get married and when she refused, he threw her French grammar book in...
Category: EquityParent Choice: Using Data to Justify Decisions that Perpetuate Segregation?
As a researcher of urban education and parent of a child entering public pre-K in New York City this fall, my professional and personal interests converged this past year as I visited...
Category: Equity
