What’s in your students’ backpack? On information privilege and poverty |
Participate and share : Poster
Renee Isom Elissa Malespina Dr. Joyce Valenza
The recognition of disparities in our students' level of access to both information resources and information-rich experiences is a social justice issue, a call to action. Presenters will address how we might build awareness, address information inequities, and develop strategies to close gaps--especially critical during COVID-19.
Audience: | Teachers, Principals/head teachers, Library media specialists |
Skill level: | Beginner |
Attendee devices: | Devices useful |
Attendee device specification: | Laptop: Mac |
Participant accounts, software and other materials: | We will bring our own laptops. |
Topic: | Equity & inclusion |
Grade level: | PK-12 |
ISTE Standards: | For Educators: Leader
Equity and Citizenship Advocate
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Participants will
Identify free resources purchased by their states to support student research at all grade levels
Consider appropriate curation tools to make high-quality resources available to their learning communities
Leave with strategies for teaching nuanced and critical literacies for information and media literacy
Materials are gathered on this Wakelet: https://wakelet.com/wake/9cf40773-859c-42ee-a9c9-ce0d0f09a31c
We'll be sharing our backpack as well as this interactive map: https://www.thinglink.com/scene/628624327662632960
This work was inspired by Peggy McIntosh's
McIntosh, P. (1988). White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack.
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