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  1. Hello. My name is Leslie Wilcox.
  2. Today I'm going to talk about social justice and educational technology.
  3. Amazingly I just finished a class for my
  4. staff development on cultural identity and institutional bias
  5. And today I'm here talking about social justice and education.
  6. Let me go ahead.
  7. Yeah.
  8. So the first thing I want to
  9. focus on is that understanding social justice
  10. means understanding completely different levels of knowledge
  11. because social justice isn't just one thing and we
  12. can't focus on that one thing all the time.
  13. Social justice means so many different things to so many different people.
  14. And I put a bunch of words on here.
  15. Could mean culture could mean contextual concepts social constructs.
  16. It could mean engaging in praxis like what are reading entailed,
  17. could talk about social variables, decision making skills.
  18. It could entail what are stakeholders want compared to what the community wants.
  19. It can mean demographics and socio economic issues.
  20. It can mean that expectations are not being met.
  21. It can mean that audience participation does not agree or audience
  22. does not agree with what is being said or done.
  23. And it can also talk about emotional intelligence, networking opportunities,
  24. collaboration, connections and the concept of good intent,
  25. meaning that not everybody out there wants the same thing
  26. you do in the same feelings that you do.
  27. However, when we're talking about social justice in a collaborative effort,
  28. we're also trying to make sure that we're all on the
  29. same wavelength and the same good intent.
  30. Yeah,
  31. but if we're talking about black and white issues or cultural
  32. issues or identities or ethnicity or social constructs such as racism,
  33. sometimes we do not have good intent,
  34. but something that school and classes and online classes and communities and
  35. organizations can do is gather people in groups in an educational setting,
  36. professional setting, um,
  37. and learn about the different steps we
  38. can take towards conflict management towards decision
  39. making as a group because as a group it can be more effective.
  40. We can have more knowledge, there's more diverse views.
  41. Um, we learn from other people.
  42. Um, there's higher quality decisions that are, that are being made,
  43. it's collaborative and there's increased acceptance into what we're trying to do.
  44. So it's really important to actually acknowledge that
  45. Social Justice and just the name itself is not just one
  46. thing and cannot be talked about within a 3-5 minute presentation,
  47. but I'm going to try anyhow.
  48. So the next thing I kind of want to talk about is, you know,
  49. what about technology and education?
  50. Well,
  51. the fact is is that education uses technology
  52. all the time to assist with social justice issues
  53. and there's many different social issues that I just talked about.
  54. So, um,
  55. some of the ways that we can do that are through something like this through online
  56. distance learning classes or through zoom through professional
  57. management classes or staff development training classes.
  58. Um, Metro meter is another tool that you can use
  59. and that I have used often whiteboard jam board,
  60. all of these things.
  61. Help and our tools and technology towards helping with social justice issues.
  62. The social justice issue that I'm currently working on is
  63. self awareness of how to deal with the homeless.
  64. What does, what impact will self awareness have
  65. on the homeless,
  66. especially for staff who work in a local homeless shelter.
  67. And here is a little um knowledge right here
  68. about how you can create course content
  69. with discussions and collaboration reflection and our
  70. actions um that include individual concepts and
  71. individual knowledge and social justice learning.
  72. So if we can create the knowledge and the awareness
  73. and the skills associated with whatever that social justice is,
  74. then there can be effective learning um,
  75. and efficient learning when it comes to context.
  76. So let's talk about who is impacted by technology and social justice
  77. and the fact is is that it is all of us.
  78. The real question is how who and what does it impact.
  79. So if we're talking about the staff development training,
  80. we're talking about the staff of
  81. who, whatever the training is.
  82. If we're talking about students learning about
  83. the history of black history for example,
  84. or american indigenous history, then these students are impacted.
  85. But so are so many others because people will talk about it
  86. network about it
  87. and hopefully create more knowledge by doing that.
  88. Um, as always difficult roads lead to beautiful destinations.
  89. We can sit in discomfort but we can learn from it.
  90. So social justice is something that should be learned um,
  91. with caution depending on what it is,
  92. because our belief systems can lead us astray sometimes.
  93. Um, and to acknowledge that our troops are not necessarily somebody else truths.
  94. And if we can do that, then then I think we've made impact.
  95. Lastly, I want to thank you for allowing me to talk about this,
  96. and I hope you have a good night.
  97. Yes.