Screen LibraryDiversifying digital learning : online literacy and educational opportunity /
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...
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Baltimore : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tech.edu : a Hopkins series on education and technology
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| Summary: |
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 succ |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 216 pages : illustrations, forms ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781421424354 (hardback) : 1421424355 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | LB1028 |
| CLC: | G571.2 |
| Call Number: | G571.2/D618 |
| Contents: |
Mapping the terrain : youth and digital media / Equitable education for democracy in the digital age : a district-wide approach / Computer science for all : a school reform framework for broadening participation in computing / Facilitating digital access : the role of empowerment agents / Reimagining STEM : catalyzing digital media and learning for civic engagement / |