Will Free Benefit the Rich?

1. Will Free Benefit the Rich? Justin Reich @bjfr EdTechResearcher.org Fellow, #Berkman Co-Founder and Director, EdTechTeacher

3. Rising Tide Closing Gaps 1) Will technology innovation ameliorate or exacerbate educational equality?2) If technology innovation exacerbates inequality, should we care?3) How could we design and deliver technology innovations so that they do improve equality? Affluent students Learning Learning EdTech Innovation EdTech Innovation

4. What do youthink might be happening? Where can research help us move past speculation?

5. Will technology innovation ameliorate or exacerbate educational equality?

6. Case Study of Classroom Wikis Access: Do students in schools serving different populations have equitable access to wikis? Usage: Do wikis created in schools serving different populations provide equitable opportunities for learning? Exemplar: Flat Classroom Project http://fcp11-3.flatclassroomproject.org/WFS+Wiki+A

7. Assessing wiki access

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9. Assessing Wiki Usage Reich, J; Murnane, R; Willet, J. (Forthcoming) The state of wiki usage in U.S., K-12 schools: Leveraging Web 2.0 data warehouses to assess quality and equity in online learning environments. Educational Researcher Data: 179,851 Publicly-Viewable, Education-Related Wikis from Pbworks.com Sample: 255 wikis from U.S. K-12 Public Schools Instrument: Wiki Quality Instrument, measures opportunities for students to develop deeper learning competencies • Expert Thinking • Complex Communication • New Media Literacy

10. Wiki Quality Instrument • Information Consumption • Do students use wikis to get information? links? • Participation • Do students contribute to the wiki? Do they own any or all pages? • Expert thinking: • Do students use academic content knowledge in wiki activities? • Do students reflect on the process/product? • Complex Communication/Collaboration: • Do students concatenate text on pages? • Do they substantively edit each others work and co-create pages? • New Media Literacy: • Do students use formatting? • Do they hyperlink? • Do they embed multimedia?

12. Wikis created in mid to high income schools Wikis created in low income schools

13. Rising Tide Closing Gaps Affluent students Learning Learning EdTech Innovation EdTech Innovation

14. Key Findings from 25 years of Education Technology Research • When provided with a new technology, teachers typically use the technology to extend existing practices rather than to innovate (Larry Cuban, Judith Sandholtz) • In affluent homes and schools, technology is more likely to be used for higher-order skill development with more adult supervision than in lower income homes and school (Harold Wenglinsky, Paul Attewell, Mark Warschauer)

16. If technology innovation exacerbates inequality, should we care?

17. Rising Tide vs. Larry Cuban Learning Learning EdTech Innovation EdTech Innovation

18. Opportunity Gap vs. Preparation Gap Learning Learning EdTech Innovation EdTech Innovation

19. Rising Tide vs. Trickle Down Learning Learning EdTech Innovation EdTech Innovation

20. What effects will inequalities have on data-driven design?

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23. How could we design and deliver technology innovations so that they do improve equality?

24. Leadership Public Schools

25. TechGoesHome

26. Glitch Game Testers

27. Back Deck

30. Picture Credits • Historic Strawberry School: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alanenglish/5066943664/in/set-72157623090972731 • Brains: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mKpSkn3PTaI/Snnpamgsz5I/AAAAAAAABLk/wHALn8m1oNc/s400/braiiins.jpg • High tech high classroom: http://newsletter.hightechhigh.org/10-20-2005/index.php

31. March 3 Microsoft New England Research and Development Center Cambridge, MA July-August, 2012 Harvard University Cambridge, MA