Ed-Tech's Inequalities

Talk (delivered virtually) at WOU

Transcript

1. Ed-Tech’s Inequalities Western Oregon University - April 2015 Audrey Watters @audreywatters
2. “…the civil rights issue of our generation”
3. “Anyone with an Internet connection can have access…”
4. 37% of adults without a high school diploma have broadband
5. HarvardX students tend to live in more affluent neighborhoods
6. A digital “Matthew effect”…
7. “The computer programming the child.”
8. The Rocketship “Learning Lab”
9. The Carpe Diem “Learning Center”
10. Ed-tech does not magically flatten hierarchies
11. “…grooming students for a lifetime of surveillance”
12. The architecture of education technology is not neutral
13. The wisdom of the crowds…
14. Without a commitment to global justice…