Jun 5th, 2008
So, I got an e-mail from ISTE. Don Knezek himself. He asked if I’d call him directly (on his cell phone!) to discuss my concerns about a fee being attached to attendance at the Digital Equity Summit. So, I did. He told me that a lot of consideration went into the decision to attach a [...]
Jun 4th, 2008
Here’s the e-mail I sent to ISTE today. I haven’t heard back yet (save for the automated out-of-office reply). What do you think? Greetings XXXXX, First of all, thanks for all that you do with ISTE and especially the Digital Equity Summit. I have great interest, empirically and personally, in issues of digital equity in [...]
A convergence of two events yesterday brought me to this post today. First, I read Paul Blogush’s post about an apparent lack of racial diversity within the conversations/networks related to School/Classroom 2.0. Second, of course, was Barack Obama’s historic evening. I’ve written quite a bit about digital equity in education, including a blog post a [...]
Feb 22nd, 2008
The study I report on today was one for which I had high hopes. The topic, digital equity, is near and dear to me as it was the focus of my dissertation and one of my first major academic publications. However, after reading the article, Digital Equity: New Findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, [...]