Researcher & Educator of Children's Tech, Media & Diversity — Wholistic Lifestyle Advocate
Throughout my doctoral program, I have been "trying on" different pedagogies and theories that focus on working with diverse students using technology and media. After several semesters of exploration, I have found that I resonate with Black feminism and constructionism. As I have explained in a previous blog post, combining these two theories have been …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Amanda LaTasha 