Youth-produced Documentaries About Technology

This session includes watching and discussing short youth-produced documentaries from the Young People's Race, Power, and Technology (YPRPT) as a way to rethink what critical digital citizenship might look like in schools. 📹 💻

Charles Logan (he/him/his), Northwestern University, @charleswlogan

Consequences of Algorithmic Oppression on Students of Color

This session focuses on the educational and mental health consequences of algorithmic oppression on Students of Color. 📹 💻

Dr. Tiera Chantè Tanksley (Tee-AIR-a TANK-slee; she/her/hers), CU Boulder & UCLA, @DrTanksley

The Data Justice Academy: A Summer Undergraduate Research Experience

This session first describes how the Data Justice Academy at the University of Virginia uses case studies of data activism to encourage awareness, empathy, and action. The sesion will then include a roundtable of undergraduate students to discuss how the program affected their use of technlogy. 📹 💻

Claudia Scholz, Ph.D. (cloud-ee-ah sholts; she/her), University of Virginia School of Data Science, @scholz

Reimagining Immigration Justice: Practices and Tools for Tech Freedom Schools

In this session, undergraduate students from the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab at Princeton University will share how they engaged in the tradition of 1960s Freedom Schools developed by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to liberate people from oppression using the tools of popular education. This session will focus on immigration justice.

Gordon Walters (He/ Him); Jemima Williams (she/her);

Sarika Ram; Dan Wey;

Carrington Johnson (she/they), @carringtonsymone (IG),

Aneekah Uddin (She/Her), @aneekahuddin (IG)

Kristal H. Grant (they/she+), @_g.h.kris._

Teaching Media Ecology through Figure/Ground Analysis

This session first describes media ecology theory, shares the figure/ground analysis, and then shares activities for teaching it. 📹 💻

Lance Mason, Indiana University Kokomo

Michelle Ciccone, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Inquiring into the History of Technology through Drones

This session will demonstrate the IEEE REACH Program, a free online open educational resource that uses the C3 framework to introduce the history of technology into the pre-university classroom. Presenters will use the UAV (Drones) unit to show that history is an ideal conduit for teaching the civic relationships of technology. 📹 💻

Michael Geselowitz, Ph.D. (GaZELLE-a-wits) & Kelly McKenna, IEEE History Center

Wrap-up and Reflections

This session will allow attendees will join together to participate in wrap-up and reflections on the keynote and other sessions from the day. Participants can also ask questions about the Civics of Technology project. Please just stay in the keynote Zoom to join this session.

Reimagining Education Justice: Practices and Tools for Tech Freedom Schools

In this session, undergraduate students from the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab at Princeton University will share how they engaged in the tradition of 1960s Freedom Schools developed by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to liberate people from oppression using the tools of popular education. This session will focus on education justice.

Jasper Levy, Kat Nix, LaJayzia Wright, Fletcher Block, Collin Riggins, & Payton Croskey

Playing with the Zoom Gaze

This session explores how we see one another and how we see ourselves in video conferencing. It aims to help everyone be more conscious of how power is mediated by video conferencing technologies and gives some tips for creating more welcoming and equitable synchronous video sessions.. 📹 💻

Autumm Caines (she/her), University of Michigan-Dearborn, @autumm

Unfolding a Smartphone

This session will share “unfold a smartphone” by sharing a lesson where students examine the longer histories of apps on their phone including the clock app and technologies of time, the maps app and technologies of wayfinding, and communication apps and their histories. 📹 💻

Ryan Smits (he/him), University of North Texas, @smits_ryan

Reimagining Environmental Justice: Practices and Tools for Tech Freedom Schools

In this session, undergraduate students from the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab at Princeton University will share how they engaged in the tradition of 1960s Freedom Schools developed by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to liberate people from oppression using the tools of popular education. This session will focus on environmental justice. 📹 💻

Auhjanae McGee (she/her/hers), LinkedIn

Aditi Desai (she/her/hers), LinkedIn

Nica Evans (she/her/hers), LinkedIn

Kai Cobbs (he/him), LinkedIn

Octavia Feliciano (she/her/hers), LinkedIn

Kenia Hale (she/her/hers), @keniaiscreating (IG), @Kenia-Hale (Twitter), keniahale.com

Temi Ayeni (she/her/hers), LinkedIn

Technology Education Introduction Workshop

This session will share activities and experiences in introducing undergraduate and K-12 students to thinking critically about technology. 📹 💻

Jacob Pleasants, University of Oklahoma

Sowing the Seeds as STEM Educators

This session will preview antiracist and critical pedagogy in the STEM classroom that engages students with social, health, and globalization issues. Participants brainstorm ideas to disrupt discriminatory practices in STEM courses that use edtech tools. 📹 💻

Sumreen Asim, Indiana University Southeast, @DrSumreen_STEM

Techno-neoliberalism & the Global South

This session explores neo-liberal policies, technologies and the impact on the Global South. In the 21st century more than ever, the ontologies of the global south are tied with the force of global neoliberal capitalism. Framing the global south as economically underdeveloped, neoliberalism framework has succeeded in offering technology as a great equalizer, enticing new consumers from the rich and evolving “third world” into the digital technology market. Techno-neoliberalism has become a dominant force in shaping ontologies across the globe, but its impact in the global south continues the work of colonization.

Ted Hall, IUPUI