Dear SITE Friends, We look forward to seeing everyone in Las Vegas in the next few days. Just a reminder that the Equity and Justice SIG is scheduled to meet on Wednesday (see your schedules for specific time and location!). Members of this SIG engage in networking and activities for promoting equity and social justice broadly in multicultural, democratic teaching and learning and teacher education, working to address educational, opportunity and digital divides. Issues of Digital Equity … [Read more...]
Equity and Justice SIG
Dear SITE friends and colleagues, Welcome to the SITE Blog and particularly to the Equity and Justice SIG of SITE. As we are set to arrive in San Antonio I wanted to outreach to those of you who have expressed interest in this SIG and have you share your ideas and interests in advance of our meeting together if you would like. You will notice that there are already two substantive posts in the Equity and Justice category of the SITE Blog. Nikki Davis has shared … [Read more...]
Tech Divide, Data Divide
Training Divide and lack of Digital Equity, a look at NCLB and the Future … [Read more...]
UNESCO to coordinate e-learning: SITE supports
With support from SITE I attended the UNESCO consultation on e-learning in October and I was present when we voted for UNESCO to become co-ordinators for this action line from the World Summit on the Information Society. The discussions raised many issues including the ciritical success factor of ICT teacher education - our focus! Hopefully we can advocate for more action e.g. through SITE's OSDE award. … [Read more...]