By Sabia Prescott In Fall 2021, New America held the third roundtable in a series designed to explore the intersections of inclusive education and digital learning. This conversation centered around one of three takeaways from a previous roundtable, summarized in Bridging Digital Equity and Culturally Responsive Education in PreK–12. This takeaway highlighted the need to […]
Opinion: Gravel or Green: What Will Become of Alaska’s Coastal Plain?
by Jonathan C. Slaght Life on the coastal plain of Alaska exists on a scale difficult to capture. It’s a wild place where herds of caribou move around wolves and bears in wide arcs, musk oxen graze among dwarf willows, and gyrfalcons search the terrain for waterbirds. The tundra ground cover — a thick mat […]
Native Americans Push for Inclusion Beyond Lessons about Thanksgiving
Originally published by The 19th Cindra Weber has seen educators romanticize the first Thanksgiving and its aftermath, separate students into “Pilgrim and Indian” roles and dress them up in thigh-bearing fringe dresses in misguided tributes to Pocahontas. But what most upsets the Lakota school district official is when teachers relegate Indigenous peoples to the past. […]
4 Causes of ‘Zoom Fatigue’ and What You Can Do About It
A new study looks at the psychological consequences of spending hours per day on these platforms. In the first peer-reviewed article that systematically deconstructs Zoom fatigue from a psychological perspective, Jeremy Bailenson, communications professor and founding director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL) at Stanford University, took the medium apart and assessed Zoom on […]
Expert: We Need New Laws for the Facial Recognition ‘Wild West’
Elizabeth Rowe likes the convenience of unlocking her phone without typing in a passcode—but not enough to use the phone’s face identification. As a legal scholar who studies facial recognition technology, she knows that few restrictions govern what’s done with the data it captures. “It’s the Wild West,” says Rowe, a professor at the University […]