As a
leader in educational technology, what can you do to help make emerging
technologies valuable to others, while maintaining gender, cultural, and
socioeconomic sensitivity?
The first
thing would be to work side by side with others to learn the benefits and
barriers the technology may present to different people. This would give me
more information about various users and make me more aware of and sensitive to
aspects that influence the audience. My field is k-12 education. Socioeconomics
is a factor with technology when it comes to public schools. A goal I would
have is that all public schools would have the capability for families to
access their server at no cost whether through wireless or some other manner. If
schools had to provide laptops, netbooks, tablets, or other mobile technology
to families for access they could. In this way, all of the students would have
the same access to information for learning as well as tools for communication and
collaboration. All learners would have the same benefits in learning despite socioeconomic
factors.
Sandra,
ReplyDeleteI agree.
where the telephone used to be a luxury, and eventually it turned into a standard part of the american household and eventually the world. We need to find a way that this can be so with the technology available with computing and the internet