The Missing Voices in EdTech
Bringing Diversity Into EdTech
Making tech decisions from a diverse space starts here!
This book offers leaders and teachers a reflective journey into diverse perspectives on technology as it is used and understood in our schools. Through step-by-step strategies and powerful vignettes, Rafranz Davis explores the deep impact inclusive EdTech conversations can have for teachers, students, women, and people of color. Educators learn practical, step-by-step solutions to:
- Engage students and give them a voice
- Cultivate diverse teacher feedback
- Encourage EdTech leadership for women and people of color
Includes real-life stories from educators. Transform the EdTech landscape and create lasting change with this one-of-a-kind book!
The Corwin Connected Educators series is your key to unlocking the greatest resource available to all educators: other educators. Being a Connected Educator is more than a set of actions: it’s a belief in the potential of technology to fuel lifelong learning. To explore the other books in this series, visit the Corwin Connected Educators website.
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“Davis’s book is both a guide for administrators and edtech leaders seeking to better support student and teacher voices and an important testimony to the power of voices willing to raise the tough questions."
—Carolyn Foote, Digital Librarian
Westlake High School, Austin, Texas
“Davis powerfully addresses the human side of technology integration. She moves teachers and school leadership with her passion, while offering real solutions to the issues that arise when integrating technology. Her solutions and ideas focus on improving the discourse between teachers, students, and leadership so that they all work collaboratively in enhancing the learning environment. She also addresses ways we can encourage women and minorities to take leadership roles in the field of education technology.”
—Shelly Sanchez Terrell
Author/Founder of The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers
"Rafranz Davis makes a significant contribution to the discussion of diversity in the edtech environment. The questions she raises at the end of each chapter provide food for thought for those considering how to better support “less heard” voices in edtech, from students, to women, to people of color. In a touching vignette, she delves into ways the power of edtech has failed to support students like Hector—using technology to take the most convenient out, rather than helping him find a voice and a better future. She asks, significantly, how edtech teachers can hear the voices of students with no access. And most importantly, she speaks up courageously, sharing her own voice and struggles to find a sense of belonging in the edtech community.
Her book is both a guide for administrators and edtech leaders seeking to better support student and teacher voices and an important testimony to the power of voices willing to raise the tough questions."
"Rafranz Davis powerfully addresses the human side of technology integration. The reader quickly realizes Rafranz has been in the teaching trenches. She moves teachers and school leadership with her passion, while offering real solutions to the issues that arise when integrating technology. Her solutions and ideas focus on improving the discourse between teachers, students, and leadership so that they all work collaboratively in enhancing the learning environment. She also addresses ways we can encourage women and minorities to take leadership roles in the field of education technology."
- Flipped leadership
- Tools for connecting educators, parents, and communities
- Blogging for educators
- Best practices for establishing a makerspace
- Tools to connect and empower teachers
Finally, all of the authors are active on social media, and they regularly present at local conferences, which helps in bringing to life the contents of these books."
