4.1 Digital Equity
Candidates model and promote strategies for achieving equitable access to digital tools and resources and technology-related best practices for all students and teachers. (PSC 4.1/ISTE 5a)
Artifact: Equitable Access Blog, ITEC7430.
Reflection:
The artifact is a blog post on equitable access. It was created in an effort promote promote strategies for achieving equitable access to digital tools and bets practices for all students and teachers. The image links to the blog page that also contains an embedded video.
The strategies recommended in the blog post are:
The artifact is a blog post on equitable access. It was created in an effort promote promote strategies for achieving equitable access to digital tools and bets practices for all students and teachers. The image links to the blog page that also contains an embedded video.
The strategies recommended in the blog post are:
- Schools may provide ICT access and education to families and communities to increase their involvement in training and inspiring students on the use of digital tools.
- Community organizations may also donate digital devices to schools.
- Students could be made to bring their own laptop computers acquired either through discounted prices or school district donation (as in the video below).
- Schools should permit smartphone use by students. Most smartphones are capable of running educational apps.
- Schools may allow students to take home school-owned devices so that students from low-income families can gain as equal learning opportunities as their peers from high-income families.
- Using mobile labs to ensure full and effective utilization of the limited digital devices by all classrooms.
- Encouraging the use of free or open-source programs in schools.
- Providing in-service training for teachers on how special-needs students can be helped in accessing digital tools and resources.