Digital Learning in High-Needs Schools: A Critical Approach to Technology Access and Equity in PreK-12

By Heejung An

Digital Learning in High-Needs Schools examines the challenges and affordances that arise when high-needs school communities integrate educational technologies into their unique settings. Although remote, blended, and networked learning are ubiquitous today, a number of cultural, economic, and political realities--from the digital divide and digital literacy to poverty and language barriers--affect our most vulnerable and underresourced teachers and students. This book uses critical theory to compassionately scrutinize and unpack the systemic issues that impact high-needs schools' implementation of digital learning tools. Incisive sociocultural analyses across fifteen original chapters explore the intersection of society, technology, people, politics, and education in high-needs school contexts. Informed by real-world cases pertaining to technology infrastructure, formative feedback, Universal Design for Learning, and more, these chapters illuminate how best practices emerge from culturally responsive and context-specific foundations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032228601
• ISBN13: 9781032228600
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"