TeachLab Podcast: S. Craig Watkins
Channel: MIT Teaching Systems Lab
Date: 2020-11-23

TeachLab is back on YouTube! We apologize for our absence as we adjusted to COVID remote production and had to rethink how to bring TeachLab back to this platform.

This week on TeachLab, host Justin Reich is joined by S. Craig Watkins, professor at the University of Texas at Austin and a respected voice on digital media and youth culture. Together they discuss the affordances and limitations of technology in education and the digital divide created as technology becomes a staple in the classroom.

“What struck me is even as I came into the project aware of these ideas around the digital divide and the tech rich and the tech poor, the haves and the have-nots, when we subscribe to that view with no other considerations and in a very one-dimensional way, we end up imposing a kind of deficit narrative on those who we see as occupying the wrong side of the divide. That is to say we only see them, right, through lack. Lack of access to technology, lack of educational opportunities, lack of interest, lack of motivation, lack of this kind of capital, that kind of capital.”
-S. Craig Watkins


Resources and Links
Check out Young People’s Transitions into Creative Work: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities
https://www.amazon.com/Young-Peoples-Journeys-into-Creative/dp/1138040835/ref=sr_1_12?dchild=1&keywords=S.+Craig+Watkins&qid=1605904576&sr=8-12

Check out The Digital Edge: How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality by S. Craig Watkins
https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Edge-Navigate-Inequality-Connected/dp/1479854115

Check out Don't Knock the Hustle: Young Creatives, Tech Ingenuity, and the Making of a New Innovation Economy 
https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Knock-Hustle-Creatives-Innovation/dp/0807035300/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Don%27t+knock+the+hustle&qid=1605889659&s=books&sr=1-2

Check out Justin Reich’s new book Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education
https://failuretodisrupt.com/



Transcript
https://teachlabpodcast.simplecast.com/episodes/s-craig-watkins/transcript


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