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Antiracist Education in an Asynchronous Online Class: A Learning Module |
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Dr. Elizabeth Uzzell Dr. Peter Hessling
This poster demonstrates an asynchronous module we created for preservice teachers in a foundations of education class. We will share our introduction to antiracist practices, describe the tools that we used with students, provide resources for instructors and share some lessons learned.
| Audience: | Teachers, Teacher education/higher ed faculty |
| Skill level: | Beginner |
| Attendee devices: | Devices useful |
| Attendee device specification: | Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows |
| Topic: | Teacher education |
| Grade level: | Community college/university |
| ISTE Standards: | For Educators: Citizen
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-Explore an approach to teaching antiracist education in an asynchronous online class.
-Discuss the resources we used to help students understand structural inequalities in schools.
-Share ideas for implementing antiracist education across subjects and classes as well as our lessons learned.
We introduced this module to students early in the spring 2021 semester, via the Moodle Learning Management System. Over the course of the semester students referred to what they had learned through class projects and discussion forums on other related topics, like inclusion, multicultural education, and the opportunity gap. As part of the final course assessment, students choose their favorite journal entry, justify why they made this choice, and state how it is consistent with their philosophy of education. Many of the students in two online sections chose their journal from the antiracist module, stating that it impacted their thinking for the entire semester. While the current semester (Fall, 2021) is not yet over, we have been getting similar reactions from our students after they experienced the module.
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Elizabeth M. Uzzell is a PhD candidate and graduate research assistant in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis at North Carolina State University. She has also taught middle school English language arts. Her research interests include antiracist education, program evaluation, and inequities in K-12 education.
I’ve been teaching at North Carolina State University for over 25 years, including almost 15 years of teaching online in some form or another. My Ph.D. is in Foundations of Education from UNC Chapel Hill, so I come at technology entirely from the humanities. My research is in the history of education, online teaching and collaboration, and pre-service teacher beliefs. I’ve been on the ISTE TEN leadership team for several years, usually participating heavily in the ISTE TEN Playground. Occasionally, I like to make short class videos using puppets.
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