Diversifying Digital Learning

Online Literacy and Educational Opportunity

William G. Tierney, Suneal Kolluri, Joseph Kahne, Christina Evans, Erica Hodgin, Young Whan Choi, Joanna Goode, Julie Flapan, Jane Margolis, Zoë B. Corwin, Antar A. Tichavakunda, S. Craig Watkins, Amanda Ochsner, Crystle Martin, Lynette Kvasny, Fay Cobb Payton, David J. Leonard, Safiya Umoja Noble, Amanda Ochsner, Zoë, William G. Tierney, Zoë B. Corwin, Amanda Ochsner

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781421424361
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Digital Media

How does the digital divide affect the teaching and learning of historically underrepresented students?

Many schools and programs in low-income neighborhoods lack access to the technological resources, including equipment and Internet service, that those in middle- and upper-income neighborhoods have at their fingertips. This inequity creates a persistent digital divide—not a simple divide in access to technology per se, but a divide in both formal and informal digital literacy that further marginalizes youths from low-income, minoritized, and first-generation communities.

Diversifying Digital Learning outlines the pervasive problems that exist with ensuring digital equity and identifies successful strategies to tackle the issue. Bringing together top scholars to discuss how digital equity in education might become a key goal in American education, this book is structured to provide a framework for understanding how historically underrepresented students most effectively engage with technology—and how institutions may help or hinder students' ability to develop and capitalize on digital literacies.

This book will appeal to readers who are well versed in the diverse uses of social media and technologies, as well as less technologically savvy educators and policy analysts in educational organizations such as schools, afterschool programs, colleges, and universities. Addressing the intersection of digital media, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic class in a frank manner, the lessons within this compelling work will help educators enable students in grades K–12, as well as in postsecondary institutions, to participate in a rapidly changing world framed by shifting new media technologies.

Contributors: Young Whan Choi, Zoë B. Corwin, Christina Evans, Julie Flapan, Joanna Goode, Erica Hodgin, Joseph Kahne, Suneal Kolluri, Lynette Kvasny, David J. Leonard, Jane Margolis, Crystle Martin, Safiya Umoja Noble, Amanda Ochsner, Fay Cobb Payton, Antar A. Tichavakunda, William G. Tierney, S. Craig Watkins

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Mapping the Terrain: Youth and Digital Media
• 2. Equitable Education for Democracy in the Digital Age: A District-Wide Approach
• 3. Computer Science for All: A School Reform Framework for Broadening Participation in Computing
• 4. Facilitating Digital Access: The Role of Empowerment Agents
• 5. Reimagining STEM: Catalyzing Digital Media and Learning for Civic Engagement
• 6. Diversifying Digital Clubhouses: Creating Pathways of Opportunity for Girls in Games and Technology
• 7. Supporting Youth to Envision Careers in Computer Science
• 8. African American Youth Tumbling Toward Mental Health Support-Seeking and Positive Academic Outcomes
• 9. Black Student Lives Matter: Online Technologies and the Struggle for Educational Justice
• Conclusion. Toward Digital Equity: The Role of Context, Quality, and Connections
• Contributors
• Index