Background

The CITE Equity Working group has put together some resources to support faculty to think about equity in the context of designing CITE Artifacts

• Equitable CITE Pedagogy: Putting it into Praxis – Long document on Manifold
• Interactive version of our goals, approaches, design principles and moves

Task

• Feel free to annotate our document on Manifold with any noticings, wonderings, resources, and ideas you have as you review it! You will need to go to this site and create an account: https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/

Then, come back here and share your responses to any number of these prompts:

• What are some noticings / wonderings you have about how we’ve framed equity in CITE? Any feedback for us?
• Where do you see connections between the spotlights you read last week and the ideas shared about equity in this week’s resources?
• What are some of the inequities that you are interested in tackling as you design and roll out CITE artifacts?
• After reading this, where do you think you might challenge yourself to go next?

Background

The CITE Equity Working group has put together some resources to support faculty to think about equity in the context of designing CITE Artifacts

• Equitable CITE Pedagogy: Putting it into Praxis – Long document on Manifold
• Interactive version of our goals, approaches, design principles and moves

Task

• Feel free to annotate our document on Manifold with any noticings, wonderings, resources, and ideas you have as you review it! You will need to go to this site and create an account: https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/

Then, come back here and share your responses to any number of these prompts:

• What are some noticings / wonderings you have about how we’ve framed equity in CITE? Any feedback for us?
• Where do you see connections between the spotlights you read last week and the ideas shared about equity in this week’s resources?
• What are some of the inequities that you are interested in tackling as you design and roll out CITE artifacts?
• After reading this, where do you think you might challenge yourself to go next?

[Virginia K. Lee (she/her/hers)]

Unpacking Equity in CITE is essential if we are to provide equitable education for all students.  A quote from Paulo Freire, “Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns, teaches in the act of learning” sums up what equity teaching is all about.  Co-learning and co-constructing knowledge in communities.

It is about asking students about their prior experiences with technology and how they learn best.  It is about asking learners to collect data about their own use of technology.

It is about applying principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

It is about mobilizing technology tools to promote students’ multimodal and multilingual participation  in use of reactions in Zoom, emojis/gifs, memes, music, sound, small and whole group interaction, translation tools and collaborative tools like Jamboard, Padlet and Nearp0d.

Equitable teaching is about locating supplementary resources for learning about tools.

As educators we are to help students monitor their own progress and encourage them to choose from among several tools, topics and modalities to show their learning.

The attached charts demonstrate what equity looks like.  We need to support students in processing the emotions that can come with taking risks around computing and technology.

We need to seek support for ourselves as we venture out and take risks with computing and use of technology.

Please see the attached EQUALITY VS EQUITY CHARTS

https://www.internationalwomensday.com/Missions/18707/Equality-versus-Equity-What-s-the-difference-as-we-EmbraceEquity-for-IWD-2023-and-beyond

Early examples in history

One of the earliest examples of equity is found in Medieval England, when English courts settled disputes according to Common Law. Justice was uniform and consistent, but not necessarily fair. For example, if two people both commit theft, but the stolen items have different value, should they receive the same punishment? Since then, Courts have adopted the principle of equity, taking a case-by-case approach to consider differing circumstances.

Equality and equity as political principles

In political terms, equality is one of the foundations of democracy. Equality is based on the belief that all people should have the same opportunities for a happy life. Equity is linked to the ideal that success is based on personal efforts and not social status.

However, ongoing conversation highlights whether equality is enough, and if instead we should look towards equity as a better principle to progress society. Equity acknowledges that people don’t begin life in the same place, and that circumstances can make it more difficult for people to achieve the same goals.

Inequity affects many people, but most commonly historically it has marginalized communities such as women, people of color, disabled people, the economically disadvantaged, and those from the LGBTQ+ community.

The goal of equity is to change systemic and structural barriers that get in the way of people’s ability to thrive.

 

 

[Virginia K. Lee (she/her/hers)]

Let’s #EmbraceEquity – together!