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 …
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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Do We See Diversity as an Issue?
In my previous post, I posed questions about if it is more important to examine consumption or creation in young children's media, specifically from the perspective of working with diverse communities. Readers' responses have stated that both are important and need to be considered. Their responses provoked deeper thinking and compelled me to ask a number of questions, one being: …
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