What is it about?
Access to technology in urban education promises many benefits, but it also carries hidden costs. This article explores ways of bringing those costs into the open by working with the people access to technology is supposed to empower. Students tasked with providing the IT support for a school's ambitious one-to-one program discuss the merits of access.
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Why is it important?
We talk about the benefits of technology and education without thinking through the way technologies make demands of their users. This article engages with benefits and costs together by asking community members to share their experiences of both.
Perspectives
This paper incorporates the voices of the public school students of color who were supposed to be empowered by technological access and prioritizes their own nuanced assessments of the value of technology in their lives.
Roderic Crooks
University of California, Irvine
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This page is a summary of: Times Thirty: Access, Maintenance, and Justice, Science Technology & Human Values, June 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0162243918783053.
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