This is interesting, and strikes me as right: "Economically disadvantaged students, who often use the computer for remediation and basic skills, learn to do what the computer tells them, while more affluent students, who use it to learn programming and tool applications, learn to tell the computer what to do. Those who cannot claim computers as their own tool for exploring the world never grasp the power of technology...They are controlled by technology as adults--just as drill-and-practice routines controlled them as students." It's a quote from Toward Digital Equity: Bridging the Divide in Education and is contained in a post looking at how literacy - and especially writing - can counteract that.
Here's a really good example: "Unhappy with portrayals of Native Americans in mainstream media, a group of students from South Dakota’s Rosebud Sioux Reservation created a video to show that their community is about more than alcoholism, broken homes and crime." It's about taking control of the imagery being used to portray you and your community, and redefining the narrative. "They weren’t content to be exoticized and knew how to tell the story of how they see themselves."
Here's a really good example: "Unhappy with portrayals of Native Americans in mainstream media, a group of students from South Dakota’s Rosebud Sioux Reservation created a video to show that their community is about more than alcoholism, broken homes and crime." It's about taking control of the imagery being used to portray you and your community, and redefining the narrative. "They weren’t content to be exoticized and knew how to tell the story of how they see themselves."
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