Full Description
Making tech decisions from a diverse space starts here!
This book offers leaders and teachers a reflective journey into diverse perspectives on technology as it is used and understood in our schools. Through step-by-step strategies and powerful vignettes, Rafranz Davis explores the deep impact inclusive EdTech conversations can have for teachers, students, women, and people of color. Educators learn practical, step-by-step solutions to:
Engage students and give them a voice
Cultivate diverse teacher feedback
Encourage EdTech leadership for women and people of color
Includes real-life stories from educators. Transform the EdTech landscape and create lasting change with this one-of-a-kind book!
The Corwin Connected Educators series is your key to unlocking the greatest resource available to all educators: other educators. Being a Connected Educator is more than a set of actions: it's a belief in the potential of technology to fuel lifelong learning.
"Davis's book is both a guide for administrators and edtech leaders seeking to better support student and teacher voices and an important testimony to the power of voices willing to raise the tough questions."
—Carolyn Foote, Digital Librarian
Westlake High School, Austin, Texas
"Davis powerfully addresses the human side of technology integration. She moves teachers and school leadership with her passion, while offering real solutions to the issues that arise when integrating technology. Her solutions and ideas focus on improving the discourse between teachers, students, and leadership so that they all work collaboratively in enhancing the learning environment. She also addresses ways we can encourage women and minorities to take leadership roles in the field of education technology."
—Shelly Sanchez Terrell
Author/Founder of The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers
Contents
Preface by Peter DeWitt
Introduction
1. Understanding Diversity
Confronting My Thinking on Diversity
Defining Diverse Voices
2. Teacher Voice in EdTech
Vignette: The Voice of the Teacher is Critical
Barriers to Teacher Voice
Teacher Perceptions of Technology
Campus Leaders: Developing Teacher Tech Leaders
Teacher Voice in Technology Professional Development
3. The Student Learner Perspective
Vignette: I Want to Use My Technology
Students Have Ideas Too
Student Voice and EdTech
Three Simple Solutions for Engaging Student Voice
The Missing Voice of Students of Poverty
Vignette: I Didn't Have a Choice But to Work Night Shift
4. Beyond Pencil Skirts and High Heels: Women of EdTech
Connected Women as Serious Voices of Tech Influence
Empowering Women Leaders Through Connected Mentors
5. The Unspoken Inequity: People of Color in EdTech
Vignette: Connecting in EdTech Beyond Race
Recognizing Expertise at the School Level
Breaking Cultural Code: Empowering to Share
Connecting Teachers of Color
A Personal Reflection on Missing Voices
