It has been some time since I have posted. Once the ISTE conference ended and I returned to Chicago, I was fully focused on my life transition. I left my position at the TEC Center to start doctoral studies at New Mexico State University in Curriculum and Instruction and moved across the country to the …
Discussions about Diversity at #ISTE2015
Last week, I attended the 2015 ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Annual Conference and led several events, including a workshop on diversity and technology in early childhood settings. The focus of this workshop was to help attendees make thoughtful choices about integrating technology to honor and empower diversity within their classroom or program. …
Join #DiversityinApps
If you've been following my blog post, you know I have advocated for the need for more diverse content children's interactive media. For the past year, I have connected with various individuals that include educators, scholars, app developers and media professionals who share a similar concern. Along with these discussions, posts in The Guardian, Joan Ganz Cooney …
Gathering Useful Resources
In my posts, I usually incorporate another source to give more context and hopefully promote further reading about a particular subject. Gradually, more people have asked me about resources for specific topics and how I manage to identify them. With so much information about ethnicity, culture, early childhood, technology, media and diverse abilities, it can be stressful just deciding the websites that …
Why Not Include Media Literacy in Early Childhood?
Media bias. It's something that we may discuss in our conversations with family members, friends, and colleagues. Many of us understand that media is constructed by human beings, and therefore, it contains biases and objectives. As adults, we develop our own methods of navigating this terrain and figure out how to function in a world full of …
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