EDTECH & EQUITYAndrew Campbell (@acampbell99)Robbie McKay (@RobbJMacKay)

THOUGHT EXPERIMENTIf a pedestrian jumped in front of your car and you couldn’t stop in time what would you do? Would you hit the pedestrian or swerve off the road and hit the wall? Why?

DO AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES HAVE A MORAL COMPASS?If a pedestrian runs out in front of a self-driving car, and the car can either hit the pedestrian or swerve into a wall, what will it do? Who decides what it will do? On what basis?

Do We Make Our Tools, Or Do They Make Us??

THE WAY HUMANS MAKE AND USE TOOLS IS PERHAPS WHAT SETS OUR SPECIES APART MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE.

Homo Habilis- The Tool Maker (2.6 million years ago)

TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS WITHOUT AN EQUIVALENT PROGRESS IN HUMAN INSTITUTIONS CAN DOOM US. THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION REQUIRES A MORAL REVOLUTION AS WELL.

Barack Obama (Hiroshima, JP. May 27, 2016)

JOHN HANKE, CEO OF NIANTIC

Born in Cross Plains, Texas (1967)

Worked on Meridian 59 (first MMORPG)

Co-Founded data visualization firm Keyhole, which was bought by Google

Helped develop Google Earth and Maps

Started a gaming unit within Google ~ Niantic

Created location based AR game Ingress

In 2015 split Niantic from Google & partnered with Nintendo.

• A FREE LOCATION-BASED AUGMENTED REALITY GAME

• RELEASED IN SELECTED COUNTRIES IN JULY 2016

• PLAYERS USE A MOBILE DEVICE'S GPS CAPABILITY TO LOCATE, CAPTURE, BATTLE, AND TRAIN VIRTUAL CREATURES, CALLED POKÉMON

• AUGMENTED REALITY/LOCATION BASED

• RELEASED TO MIXED REVIEWS• GLOBAL PHENOMENON: AND WAS

ONE OF THE MOST USED AND PROFITABLE MOBILE APPS IN 2016 ($2M/DAY)

• DOWNLOADED MORE THAN 500 MILLION TIMES WORLDWIDE,

Pokemon Go

KENDRA JAMES

Writer & Pokemon Go Player

On July 13 rode the bus from Irvington NJ to NYC

Fewer or no Pokestops in predominantly black neighbourhoods and lots in mostly white neighbourhoods

Tweeted her journey

• CROWDSOURCE #MYPOKEHOOD• PLACES THAT HAVE PEOPLE OF

COLOR IN THEM DON’T HAVE POKESTOPS

• CONFIRMED BY RESEARCH. WHITE AREAS 55 PS, MINORITY AREAS 19 PS

• PEOPLE OF COLOR HAVE TO TRAVEL TO AREAS THAT ARE NOT ALWAYS SAFE FOR THEM

• WOMEN HAVE A DIFFERENT RELATIONSHIP TO PUBLIC SPACE

• WHAT WOULD POKEMON GO LOOK LIKE IF IT WERE MOSTLY CREATED BY WOMEN?

• EXCLUDES DISABLED, SICK, RURAL AREAS, RESERVATIONS & THOSE WITHOUT TECHNOLOGY

Aura Bogado: Writer at Grist

“A DEATH SENTENCE IF YOU ARE A BLACK MAN”

“The premise of Pokemon GO asks me to put my life in danger if I chose to play it as it is intended and with enthusiasm. Let’s just go ahead and add Pokemon GO to the extremely long list of things white people can do without fear of being killed, while Black people have to realistically be wary.”

Omar Akil, writer

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN??

Pokemon Go was superimposed on top of the location based sites selected for Ingress

The locations in Ingress were crowd sourced by early players of Ingress.

The majority of those early adopters of Ingress were affluent white males which skewed the sample of locations in Pokemon Go

Digital Redlining

TECHNOLOGY IS MOSTLY CREATED BY WHITE MEN

More white and male than the rest of the private sector (EOC, 2016)

68.5% vs 63.5%

Only 7% Black and 8% Hispanic

Only 36% female (48% private sector).

83% of executives were white and 80% were men

TECHNOLOGY PREDOMINANTLY BENEFITS THE WEALTHY

Statistics Canada’s 2010 Canadian Internet Use Survey found education, income, age and location were all linked with significant disparity in people’s digital competency

TECHNOLOGY BENEFITS THE WEALTHY

“Only 60 per cent of those in the lowest household income bracket (below $25,000) reported Internet use in the previous

year compared to 95 per cent of those in the highest ($100,000-plus)”

THE I IN EQUITY

I’m responsible for equity in digital technology in

elementary classrooms.

Systemic Action

Not more $$$, smarter $$$

Not more $$$, smarter $$$

• High quality

Not more $$$, smarter $$$

• High quality

• Well-supported

Not more $$$, smarter $$$

• High quality

• Well-supported

• Needed

In my classroom

In my classroom

Explicit teaching

In my classroom

Explicit teaching

• Basic skills (keyboarding, speech to text)

In my classroom

Explicit teaching

• Basic skills (keyboarding, speech to text) • Critical use (research, triangulaltion,

building bibliographies, etc.)

Find your people.

Find your people.

@alicekeeler@MatthewOldridge @audreywatters@zbpipe@fryed @murray_deem

@acampbell99 @jessysaurusrex @stepanpruch @royanlee @zephoria#edtechchat

My suggestions:

TECHNOLOGY AND GENDER

COLOSSUS: THE WORLD’S FIRST “MODERN” COMPUTERDeveloped at Bletchley Park by Alan Turing as part of the Allies effort to break the German’s

Enigma code.

A LONG HISTORY OF WOMEN AND TECHNOLOGY

8,000 women worked at Bletchley Park, far outnumbering the men.

ORIGINAL PROGRAMMERS OF ENIACThe first electronic general purpose computer was programmed by Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder,

Fran Bilas, Kay McNulty, Marlyn Wescoff, and Ruth Lichterman.

MARGARET HAMILTONMargaret Hamilton wrote the code for Apollo 11’s on-board flight software, received NASA’s

Exceptional Space Act Award and is credited with coining the term “software engineering.”

GRACE HOPPERThe “Mother of COBOL” was a United States Navy officer and the first programmer of the Harvard Mark I. She popularized the term “debugging” – a reference to finding a moth in a relay in the Harvard Mark II computer!.

• DR. GRACE HOPPER : “PROGRAMMING IS JUST LIKE PLANNING A DINNER. YOU HAVE TO PLAN AHEAD AND SCHEDULE EVERYTHING SO THAT IT’S READY WHEN YOU NEED IT…. WOMEN ARE ‘NATURALS’ AT COMPUTER PROGRAMMING.”

• JAMES ADAMS, THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION FOR THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY,: “I DON’T KNOW OF ANY OTHER FIELD, OUTSIDE OF TEACHING, WHERE THERE’S AS MUCH OPPORTUNITY FOR A WOMAN.”

“The Computer Girls” (Cosmopolitan, 1967)

WHAT HAPPENED?? SEXISM

Male Programmers created professional associations and educational requirements to increase prestige.

Computer industry ad campaigns linked women staffers to human error and inefficiency

Increased use of aptitude tests to select programmers that favoured men (math, problem solving).

ANTI-SOCIAL COMPUTER GEEKCompanies started to hire programmers with personality profiles that showed “disinterest in

people” and that they disliked “activities involving close personal interaction.”

WHAT’S THE RESULT?

In 1985 40% of Computer Science undergraduates where female

Today only 17% are women.

According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 73% of all jobs in Computer Scince were held by men

ARE WOMEN BETTER CODERS?

Study results released in February 2016

1.4 million users, the largest scale study of gender bias to date

Women actually have their requests accepted at a higher rate than men, 78.6 percent of the time compared to 74.6 percent of the time for men.

• Supporting girls development in math and science

• Ladies Learning Code (ladieslearningcode.com)

• Teach coding in elementary school

• Teacher’s Learning Code (www.teacherslearningcode.com)

• Hour of Code (hourofcode.com)

WHAT CAN WE DO??

TECHNOLOGY AND RACE

• one of the first black technologists

• developed high-speed semiconductor computer-memory systems at Fairchild Semiconductor R&D Labs

• one of 63 inductees into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame

FRANK GREENE

ROY CLAY

a Silicon Valley pioneer

worked as the research and development director of Hewlett-Packard (HP)'s computer division

design and produced HP's first computers in the 1960s.

LESS THAN 1% OF OF TECHNICAL EMPLOYEES AT

GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, ETC. ARE PEOPLE OF

COLOUR

WHERE ARE THE CODERS OF COLOUR?

MOVING TOWARDS DIVERSITY

After 2010 media and employees started to ask why tech companies weren’t more diverse

Now most tech companies have executives and teams responsible for making them more diverse

Actively recruiting more people of colour

Internships/Residencies

TECHNOLOGY & EQUITYIf the potential of technology to transform classroom learning is ever to

be realized, we must also have technological equity.

Equity of AccessEnsuring that all students have the resources and opportunity to develop the tech skills they need to be successful

Equity of CreationEnsuring that the unique characteristics of all different kinds of students are considered and represented in the technological tools used in the classroom

EDTECH EQUITY

THANK YOUAndrew Campbell (@acampbell99)Robbie McKay (@RobbJMacKay)