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ERIC Number: EJ1317453
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Sep
Pages: 4
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0013-1784
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"Techquity": Going from Digital Poverty to Digital Empowerment
Shelton, Ken
Educational Leadership, v79 n1 p39-42 Sep 2021
"Techquity," as the author defines it, means merging the effective use of educational technologies with culturally responsive and culturally relevant learning experiences to support students' development of essential skills. Technology, distributed and used equitably, enables opportunity and voice, dismantles barriers around learner exceptionalities, democratizes access to information, and disrupts racial and economic-privilege hierarchies. Much of the ed-tech sphere centers the voices of white educators, who often focus on minor tweaks of the existing system rather than questioning the system as a whole. This article discusses the importance of interrogating why most technology initiatives and discussions work within the existing structures when those structures most often are not working for students, especially students of color. Instead of using technology as an intervention mechanism or simply digitizing one-size-fits-all instruction, educators need to ask whether they are meeting learners on a personalized basis. Technology-based learning experiences should align with and encourage higher-order thinking and greater creativity.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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