Found below is a link to the Twitter Essay I created, summarizing the key points and my opinions on “Digital Redlining, Access and Privacy” written by Chris Gilliard and Hugh Culik, published on May 24th, 2016. Here is a link to the article itself. https://www.commonsense.org/education/privacy/blog/digital-redlining-access-privacy.
Gilliard and Culik discuss digital redlining in range of post secondary institutions, including community colleges as well as higher level institutions. The main purpose of the article is to make note of the filters in place between a student and the internet that block access to information within and throughout the different levels of educational institutions . If the school restricts information access, knowledge doesn’t simply become invisible, it does not even exist. This is the first time that I have ever been introduced to this idea in post secondary education. I knew of it in the grade school and high school levels to keep students off social media and inappropriate sites during school hours, which as someone who is studying to be a teacher I agree with, but I did not realize it existed at a higher level. I was under the impression that colleges and universities are supposed to be places with vast amount of knowledge and safe spaces for inquiry into any topic you want to gain knowledge on. I did not realize sources through the university are filtered, and this makes me question much of the past research I have done. What was I missing out on? Gilliard and Culik discuss that digital redlining is not a acknowledged problem in higher level institutions because many of the students come from a higher socioeconomic background and can access the internet at home rather than at school. I believe this is the category where I fall, I never thought much of digital redlining at school because a large chunk of my research has been done at home. Even when I did notice a difference in things such as the search results at home compared to school, I did not think anything of it until now. It is important that I know what digital redlining is and I can be aware of it while attending post secondary education. As well as, from the perspective of a future teacher, I am especially thankful for the information I have gained from this article, more specifically the possibility that knowledge may be blocked from my future students. I think more people need to be made aware, and it needs to be something we acknowledge and discuss as a society so we can work on changing the limits on information that students can access at all levels.
Here is the link to my Twitter Essay! By clicking on the tweet below, the first tweet in my series, you should be brought to the whole essay! Feel free to reply to my tweets and start a conversation!
1. Who out there has read "Digital Redlining, Access, and Privacy" by Chris Gilliard and Hugh Culik?
— DimuD (@dimu_d) October 24, 2018
Imbedded below is a video explaining my process using twitter and creating my twitter essay. I discuss the pros and cons to using twitter, some of cool things I could do with twitter as well as the difficulties that arose while I was working on my essay. I apologize for the quality, but I had to compress the video for it to upload to youtube. Enjoy!