"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.
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