equity and technology workshop: 04/30/07

Monday, April 30, 2007

Some questions to think about...

What are the gaps in policy and practice around equity and technology?
What are you doing or what do you know about what others are doing around issues of equity and technology that could be shared?
What can be done at a systemic level to improve how to use technology equitably, and to use technology to counter traditional and now well-established inequities?

What are we doing?

For the past 4 years, Dr. Dianne Looker has been principal investigator on a major SSHRC funded grant studying elements of the digital divide in Canada. The Equity and Technology Research Alliance is a project that involves researchers and partners from three major universities in Nova Scotia (Dalhousie, Acadia and MSVU), policy officials from the Nova Scotia and Nunavut departments of education, educators, and representatives from the African-Canadian and First Nations communities. The project also involved researchers from South Africa and Australia.

So the project is in the wrap-up phase and Dr. Looker is not the type of researcher that is happy to just have her research end up on a shelf where it will not be as accessible to the very individuals who made it possible... that is, the participants. So with a series of INE Outreach Grants, Dr. Looker and the Equity and Technology team have organized a series of innovative dissemination activities.

This workshop is one of those outreach activities. The blog will go "live" at 10:30 AM when Charlene Croft and Ted Naylor begin blogging the discussions and interactions throughout the day. We encourage everyone who is interested to be interactive, we will be sharing comments left on the blog with those participating in the workshop. Further, workshop participants will also be encouraged to "blog" their own thoughts and ideas on using technology to enhance classroom equity during the day.

equity and technology workshop

Monday, April 30, 2007

Some questions to think about...

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