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Enhancing Inclusive Practices through Digital Data: A Pathway to Equity

This paper presented by Sue Watling at the 11th International Conference on Diversity in Organizations examines the dual potential of digital data to promote inclusive education and create divides. It discusses transformative digital landscapes, interactivity in learning, and the socio-technical shaping of technology that can either support or hinder access. The research highlights the importance of digital literacies, training and support, and the need for inclusive practices to bridge the growing digital divide, ultimately advocating for the empowerment of all learners.

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Enhancing Inclusive Practices through Digital Data: A Pathway to Equity

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  1. Access Enabled, Access Denied: Supporting Inclusive Practice with Digital Data Sue Watling - University of Lincoln, UK 11th International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations University of the Western Cape Capetown, South Africa 20th-22nd June 2011

  2. Digital Landscapes • Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) • Promise of ‘transformative change’ • Widening opportunities • Potential for inclusive education but equal potential for exclusion • Digital divides ‘complex and dynamic phenomena’ (van Dijk 2003) • Digital divides ‘replicated and reinforced by social divides’ (Steyaert 2005)

  3. Digital Data • Advantages • 24/7 availability • Mobile • Transferable • Flexible • Customisable • Potential for equity of access

  4. Giesbert Nijhuis (Designer) Assistive Technology

  5. Changing digital landscapes • Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 • Read-only to interactivity • Consumer to Producer • Changing digital toolbox • User generated content • We can all be digital authors…

  6. MEE-Model

  7. Vision impairment

  8. Conclusion

  9. Digital literacies • Three layers to digital exclusion • Cost of access • Training and support • Inclusive digital practices • Promotion of digital literacies as both technical and social practices • The ‘social shaping’ of technology (Bjiker and Law 1992)

  10. Watling, S. (2011) Digital Exclusion: coming out from behind closed doors. Disability and Society 26 (4) 491:495 • Watling, S. (2011) Digital Exclusion: potential implications for social work education & practice. Journal of Social Work Education. 30 (1) • Watling, S. & Crawford, K.(2011) Digital Exclusion: implications for human services practitioners. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 28: 205:216 • Contact: swatling@lincoln.ac.uk • http://suewatling.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk

  11. References • Bijker, W. & Law, J. (eds.) (1992) Shaping Technology/Building Society: studies in socio-technical change London: MIT Press. • Deal, M. (2007) Aversive disablism: subtle prejudice toward disabled people Disability & Society 22 (1) 93:107 • Steyaert J. (2005) Web based higher education, the inclusion/exclusion paradox. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 23 (1/2) 67:78. • Van Dijk, J. & Hacker, K. (2003) The Digital Divide as a Complex and Dynamic Phenomenon. The Information Society 19, (4), 315:326

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