Enhancing Digital Equity

Author : Massimo Ragnedda
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030490799

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Enhancing Digital Equity by Massimo Ragnedda Pdf

This book highlights how, in principle, digital technologies present an opportunity to reduce social disparities, tackle social exclusion, enhance social and civil rights, and promote equity. However, to achieve these goals, it is necessary to promote digital equity and connect the digital underclass. The book focuses on how the advent of technologies may become a barrier to social mobility and how, by concentrating resources and wealth in few hands, the digital revolution is giving rise to the digital oligarchy, further penalizing the digital underclass. Socially-disadvantaged people, living at the margins of digital society, are penalized both in terms of accessing-using-benefits (three levels of digital divide) but also in understanding-programming-treatment of new digital technologies (three levels of algorithms divide). The advent and implementation of tools that rely on algorithms to make decisions has further penalized specific social categories by normalizing inequalities in the name of efficiency and rationalization.

Author : Gwen Solomon,Nancy J. Allen,Paul E. Resta
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015056160511

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Toward Digital Equity by Gwen Solomon,Nancy J. Allen,Paul E. Resta Pdf

Examines factors that collectively create and sustain the present inequalities in student access to digital technologies, and discusses some of the challenges and opportunities for addressing the issue. The 15 chapters explore philosophical and sociocultural aspects of digital equity, consider the needs of particular populations of learners, and suggest organizational structures and policies for instituting systematic change. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Mary T. Kolesinski,Evelyn Nelson-Weaver,Daryl Diamond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135119171

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Digital Solidarity in Education by Mary T. Kolesinski,Evelyn Nelson-Weaver,Daryl Diamond Pdf

Digital Solidarity in Education is a book for educators, scholars, and students interested in better understanding both the role technology can play in schools and its potential for strengthening communities, optimizing the effects of globalization, and increasing educational access. The digital solidarity movement prioritizes the engagement and mobilization of students from diverse racial, ethnic, linguistic, and economic backgrounds, and with giftedness and/or disabilities, to utilize and apply technologies. This powerful book introduces innovative technological programs including virtual schools, e-tutoring, and interactive online communities for K-12 students that can: • increase students' knowledge and understanding of advanced concepts while reinforcing their basic skills; • reinforce students' communication in their first language while introducing second and third language possibilities; • nurture students' capabilities to think analytically, while using creative and innovative ideas to think simultaneously “outside of the box.” The experienced author team shows how collaborative partners from the private sector can assist public school systems and educators in creating access for all students to technological innovations, with a goal of increasing individual opportunities for future college and career success. Combining theoretical scholarship and research with the personal perspectives of practitioners in the field, this volume shares with readers both the nuts and bolts of using technology in education, and the importance of doing so.

Author : Tom Vander Ark
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118115879

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Getting Smart by Tom Vander Ark Pdf

A comprehensive look at the promise and potential of online learning In our digital age, students have dramatically new learning needs and must be prepared for the idea economy of the future. In Getting Smart, well-known global education expert Tom Vander Ark examines the facets of educational innovation in the United States and abroad. Vander Ark makes a convincing case for a blend of online and onsite learning, shares inspiring stories of schools and programs that effectively offer "personal digital learning" opportunities, and discusses what we need to do to remake our schools into "smart schools." Examines the innovation-driven world, discusses how to combine online and onsite learning, and reviews "smart tools" for learning Investigates the lives of learning professionals, outlines the new employment bargain, examines online universities and "smart schools" Makes the case for smart capital, advocates for policies that create better learning, studies smart cultures

Author : Rebecca J. Blankenship,Charlotte Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Computer-assisted instruction
ISBN : 1522593322

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Cases on Digital Learning and Teaching Transformations in Higher Education by Rebecca J. Blankenship,Charlotte Baker Pdf

"This book examines the purpose, construct, and implementation of digital learning and teaching transformations in higher education. It focuses on transformational cases in terms of the TPACK construct in addition to digital agentive transformation across levels of use"--

Author : Laura S. Scherling
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Design
ISBN : 9783839471425

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Digital Transformation in Design by Laura S. Scherling Pdf

What does it take to create innovative tech-savvy designs that are usable, appealing, and good for society? The contributions to this volume introduce contemporary research on the digitization and »datafication« of products, exploring topics like user experience, artificial intelligence, and virtual environments in design. Coming from varied backgrounds in product design, interaction design, service design, game design, architecture, and graphic design, they emphasize that digital transformation is not just a technical process, but also a social and learning process that fundamentally changes the way we understand information.

Author : Hargittai, Eszter
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788116572

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Handbook of Digital Inequality by Hargittai, Eszter Pdf

This cutting-edge Handbook offers fresh perspectives on the key topics related to the unequal use of digital technologies. Considering the ways in which technologies are employed, variations in conditions under which people use digital media and differences in their digital skills, it unpacks the implications of digital inequality on life outcomes.

Author : William Housley,Adam Edwards,Roser Beneito-Montagut,Richard Fitzgerald
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529789133

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The SAGE Handbook of Digital Society by William Housley,Adam Edwards,Roser Beneito-Montagut,Richard Fitzgerald Pdf

This SAGE Handbook brings together cutting edge social scientific research and theoretical insight into the emerging contours of digital society. Chapters explore the relationship between digitisation, social organisation and social transformation at both the macro and micro level, making this a valuable resource for postgraduate students and academics conducting research across the social sciences. The topics covered are impressively far-ranging and timely, including machine learning, social media, surveillance, misinformation, digital labour, and beyond. This innovative Handbook perfectly captures the state of the art of a field which is rapidly gaining cross-disciplinary interest and global importance, and establishes a thematic framework for future teaching and research. Part 1: Theorising Digital Societies Part 2: Researching Digital Societies Part 3: Sociotechnical Systems and Disruptive Technologies in Action Part 4: Digital Society and New Social Dilemmas Part 5: Governance and Regulation Part 6: Digital Futures

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309438919

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The Promises and Perils of Digital Strategies in Achieving Health Equity by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities Pdf

Health care is in the midst of a dramatic transformation in the United States. Spurred by technological advances, economic imperatives, and governmental policies, information technologies are rapidly being applied to health care in an effort to improve access, enhance quality, and decrease costs. At the same time, the use of technologies by the consumers of health care is changing how people interact with the health care system and with health information. These changes in health care have the potential both to exacerbate and to diminish the stark disparities in health and well-being that exist among population groups in the United States. If the benefits of technology flow disproportionately to those who already enjoy better coverage, use, and outcomes than disadvantaged groups, heath disparities could increase. But if technologies can be developed and implemented in such a way to improve access and enhance quality for the members of all groups, the ongoing transformation of health care could reduce the gaps among groups while improving health care for all. To explore the potential for further insights into, and opportunities to address, disparities in underserved populations the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in October 2014. The workshop focused on (1) how communities are using digital health technologies to improve health outcomes for racial and ethnic minority populations, (2) how community engagement can improve access to high-quality health information for members of these groups, and (3) on models of successful technology-based strategies to reduce health disparities. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions at the workshop.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264866683

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OECD Rural Studies Enhancing Rural Innovation in the United States by OECD Pdf

When it comes to high-tech innovations, the United States leads the path amongst OECD economies. However, in the context of the national record-breaking activities in high tech innovation, there lies distinct and growing geographical disparities. This report dives into strategies for better understanding innovation that occurs in rural places, and places outside major metropolitan areas, often going beyond science and technology.

Author : E. Dianne Looker,Ted D. Naylor
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781554582860

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Digital Diversity by E. Dianne Looker,Ted D. Naylor Pdf

Digital Diversity: Youth, Equity, and Information Technology is about youth, schools, and the use of technology. Youth are instrumental in finding novel ways to access and use technology. They are directly affected by changes such as the proliferation of computers in schools and elsewhere, and the increasingly heavy use of the Internet for both information sharing and for communication. The contributors to this volume investigate how the resources provided by information and communication technology (ICT) are made available to different groups of young people (as defined by gender, race, rural location, Aboriginal status, street youth status) and how they do (or do not) develop facility and competence with this technology. How does access vary for these different groups of youth? Which young people develop facility with ICT? What impact has this technology had on their learning and their lives? These are among the issues examined. Youth from a wide variety of settings are included in the study, including Inuit youth in the high arctic. Rather than mandate how youth should/could better use technology (as much of the existing literature does) the contributors focus on how youth and educators are actually using technology. By paying attention to the routine use and understandings of ICTs by youth and those teaching youth, the book highlights the current gaps in policy and practice. It challenges assumptions around the often taken-for-granted links between technology, pedagogy, and educational outcomes for youth in order to highlight a range of important equity issues.

Author : Sarah Thomas,Nicol R. Howard,Regina Schaffer
Publisher : International Society for Technology in Education
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781564847157

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Closing the Gap by Sarah Thomas,Nicol R. Howard,Regina Schaffer Pdf

Three experts on equity and technology offer concrete, evidence-based strategies for classroom teachers to move toward digital equity in K12 settings. Closing the Gap is an ISTE book series designed to reflect the contributions of multiple stakeholders seeking to ensure that digital equity is achieved on campuses, in classrooms, and throughout education. In this series, authors Nicol R. Howard, Sarah Thomas, and Regina Schaffer offer historical and philosophical insights while exploring challenges and solutions unique to teacher preparation programs, pre-service and in-service teachers, and instructional coaches. The second title in the Closing the Gap series, this book includes: • Examination of digital equity and the “problem of practice” for teachers and coaches • Strategies for connecting the ISTE Educator and Student Standards to practice • Discussion of key challenges facing teachers in today’s classrooms, such as access, connectivity, limited resources, digital divide, and the homework gap • Research-based vignettes from teachers who have encountered and conquered some of the challenges addressed in the book, and from edtech coaches who have implemented equity-centered innovative professional development This book helps teachers address the challenges of teaching in the digital age, providing positive examples and recommendations for achieving digital equity in their classroom communities.

Author : Müge Satar
Publisher : Research-publishing.net
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9782490057948

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Virtual exchange: towards digital equity in internationalisation by Müge Satar Pdf

This volume includes a collection of short papers presented at the second International Virtual Exchange Conference (IVEC) hosted virtually at Newcastle University in September 2020. The contributions address the conference theme, towards digital equity in internationalisation, and offer fresh insights into the current state and future of online intercultural communication and collaborative learning. Providing examples of interdisciplinary, multinational, and multimodal research and pedagogy in virtual exchange from around the world, this book will appeal to educators, administrators, researchers, and internationalisation leads in higher education interested in supporting and implementing virtual exchange.

Author : Simeon Yates
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031289309

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Digital Inclusion by Simeon Yates Pdf

Author : Michael Roberts
Publisher : Richards Education
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Digital Transformation in Education: Enhancing Learning with Technology by Michael Roberts Pdf

In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, digital transformation has become a cornerstone of innovation and progress. "Digital Transformation in Education: Enhancing Learning with Technology" offers a comprehensive exploration of how technology is reshaping the educational experience. This book dives deep into various facets of digital transformation, from integrating AI and immersive technologies into classrooms to leveraging data analytics for personalized learning journeys. Designed for educators, administrators, policymakers, and technologists alike, this guide provides practical insights, case studies, and best practices to navigate the complexities of digital adoption in education. Empower your institution with the knowledge to harness the full potential of technology and create transformative learning environments fit for the future.