Addressing the Deeper Dimensions of Digital Equity: Digging for Inclusion Impact

The webinar will explore key digital equity challenges beyond the compelling and obvious need to ensure equitable access to broadband, devices, tech support and digital literacy skills. The wave of significant digital equity funding challenges & enables us to fully integrate attention to crucial concerns:

• accessibility, assistive technology and universal design for learning
• strengthening online learning pedagogy
• equipping children and youth, their caregivers and educators with tools to anticipate and mitigate device and social network addiction, cyberbullying and data privacy threats
• providing linguistically diverse youths and adults with the skills to provide multilingual tech support
• creating a sustainable ecosystem for harvesting, securing funding and distributing free fully refurbished laptops bundled with Office 365 and drive image pointers to 211, Bank On accounts, and other systemic inclusion resources
• anticipating the escalating need to move toward more agile workforce development & apprenticeship systems with employer-recognized badging, in light of AI's profound disruptions
• leveraging neurofeedback science to address widespread learner isolation, depression, and suicidal ideation in the pandemic's wake

Panel includes:

• Tom Finn, CEO, Avid Products
• Christine Fox, Project Director, Center for Inclusive Technology and Educational Systems (CITES) at CAST
• Lawrence Franchini, BrainCo's VP for sales & operations
• Jenelle Leonard, NCDE's director of leadership development for inclusion
• Dr. Irv Richardson, NH NEA's coordinator of public education and school support, and past Maine Teacher of the Year and Maine Principal of the Year
• Roger Rosen, CEO, Rosen Digital Publishing
• Eppo van Nispen tot Sevenaer, exec. dir., Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, who leads the world's first national conversation setting AI ethical guidelines
• Erik Zvaigzne, Convergence.Tech's VP product development