Presentation for BIT 16

1. EDTECH & EQUITY
Andrew Campbell (@acampbell99)
Robbie McKay (@RobbJMacKay)

2. THOUGHT EXPERIMENT
If 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?

3. DO AUTONOMOUSVEHICLES 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?

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

5. THE WAY
HUMANS MAKE
AND USETOOLS
IS PERHAPS WHAT
SETS OUR SPECIES
APART MORE
THAN ANYTHING
ELSE.
Homo Habilis- The Tool Maker (2.6 million
years ago)

6. 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)

8. 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.

9. • A FREE LOCATION-BASED
AUGMENTED REALITY GAME
• RELEASED IN SELECTED COUNTRIES
IN JULY 2016
• PLAYERS USE A MOBILE DEVICE'S GPS
CAPABILITYTO LOCATE, CAPTURE,
BATTLE,ANDTRAINVIRTUAL
CREATURES, CALLED POKÉMON
• AUGMENTED REALITY/LOCATION
BASED
• RELEASEDTO MIXED REVIEWS
• GLOBAL PHENOMENON:AND WAS
ONE OFTHE MOST USED AND
PROFITABLE MOBILE APPS IN 2016
($2M/DAY)
• DOWNLOADED MORETHAN 500
MILLIONTIMES WORLDWIDE,
Pokemon Go

10. 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

11. • CROWDSOURCE #MYPOKEHOOD
• PLACESTHAT HAVE PEOPLE OF
COLOR INTHEM DON’T HAVE
POKESTOPS
• CONFIRMED BY RESEARCH.WHITE
AREAS 55 PS, MINORITY AREAS 19 PS
• PEOPLE OF COLOR HAVETOTRAVEL
TO AREASTHAT ARE NOT ALWAYS
SAFE FORTHEM
• WOMEN HAVE A DIFFERENT
RELATIONSHIPTO PUBLIC SPACE
• WHAT WOULD POKEMON GO
LOOK LIKE IF IT WERE MOSTLY
CREATED BY WOMEN?
• EXCLUDES DISABLED, SICK, RURAL
AREAS, RESERVATIONS &THOSE
WITHOUTTECHNOLOGY
Aura Bogado:Writer at Grist

12. “A DEATH SENTENCE IFYOU 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

13. HOW DIDTHIS 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

14. 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

15. TECHNOLOGY PREDOMINANTLY BENEFITSTHE
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

16. TECHNOLOGY BENEFITSTHE 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)”

17. THE I IN EQUITY

18. I’m responsible for equity in
digital technology in
elementary classrooms.

19. Systemic Action

20. Not more $$$, smarter $$
$

21. Not more $$$, smarter $$
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• High quality

22. Not more $$$, smarter $$
$
• High quality
• Well-supported

23. Not more $$$, smarter $$
$
• High quality
• Well-supported
• Needed

24. In my classroom

25. In my classroom
Explicit teaching

26. In my classroom
Explicit teaching
• Basic skills (keyboarding, speech to text)

27. In my classroom
Explicit teaching
• Basic skills (keyboarding, speech to text)
• Critical use (research, triangulaltion,
building bibliographies, etc.)

28. Find your people.

29. Find your people.
@alicekeeler
@MatthewOldridge
@audreywatters
@zbpipe
@fryed
@murray_deem
@acampbell99
@jessysaurusrex
@stepanpruch
@royanlee
@zephoria
#edtechchat
My suggestions:

30. TECHNOLOGY AND GENDER

31. COLOSSUS:THE WORLD’S FIRST “MODERN” COMPUTER
Developed at Bletchley Park by Alan Turing as part of the Allies effort to break the German’s
Enigma code.

32. A LONG HISTORY OF WOMEN
ANDTECHNOLOGY
8,000 women worked at Bletchley Park, far outnumbering the men.

33. ORIGINAL PROGRAMMERS OF ENIAC
The first electronic general purpose computer was programmed by Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder,
Fran Bilas, Kay McNulty, Marlyn Wescoff, and Ruth Lichterman.

34. MARGARET HAMILTON
Margaret 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.”

35. GRACE HOPPER
The “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!.

36. • DR. GRACE HOPPER :
“PROGRAMMING IS JUST LIKE
PLANNING A DINNER.YOU HAVE
TO PLAN AHEAD AND SCHEDULE
EVERYTHING SOTHAT IT’S READY
WHENYOU NEED IT….WOMEN
ARE ‘NATURALS’AT COMPUTER
PROGRAMMING.”
• JAMES ADAMS,THE DIRECTOR OF
EDUCATION FORTHE
ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING
MACHINERY,:“I DON’T KNOW OF
ANY OTHER FIELD, OUTSIDE OF
TEACHING,WHERETHERE’S AS
MUCH OPPORTUNITY FOR A
WOMAN.”
“The Computer Girls” (Cosmopolitan, 1967)

37. 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).

38. ANTI-SOCIAL COMPUTER GEEK
Companies started to hire programmers with personality profiles that showed “disinterest in
people” and that they disliked “activities involving close personal interaction.”

39. WHAT’STHE 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

40. 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.

41. • 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??

42. TECHNOLOGY AND RACE

43. • 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
SiliconValley Engineering Hall
of Fame
FRANK GREENE

44. ROY CLAY
a SiliconValley 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.

45. LESSTHAN 1% OF
OFTECHNICAL
EMPLOYEES AT
GOOGLE,
FACEBOOK, ETC.
ARE PEOPLE OF
COLOUR
WHERE ARETHE CODERS
OF COLOUR?

46. MOVINGTOWARDS 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

47. TECHNOLOGY & EQUITY
If the potential of technology to transform classroom learning is ever to
be realized, we must also have technological equity.

48. Equity of Access
Ensuring that all students have the
resources and opportunity to develop the
tech skills they need to be successful
Equity of Creation
Ensuring that the unique characteristics of
all different kinds of students are
considered and represented in the
technological tools used in the classroom
EDTECH EQUITY

49. THANKYOU
Andrew Campbell (@acampbell99)
Robbie McKay (@RobbJMacKay)