The article Digital Redlining, Access, and Privacy by Chris Gilliard proved to a piece that pushed the idea of access to information at the post-secondary level.
This article was a well-done piece that provides the origins of the word redlining and why it is critical to understand this concept to grasp the overall discussion of the article. Through student experience, there is a deep insight into this idea because of our greater access to information than the average citizen. This relevant because the modern student is a digital native and therefore fluent in the access information, but this proves problematic through limiting their access to knowledge. This plays a critical role within the modern digital academic landscape because there is large contention with freedom of speech and freedom of information being presented as a major issue on campuses. This is ironic because schools will not acknowledge digital redlining as a problem however they will acknowledge the limiting of speech and information as a forefront problem in post-secondary education. The irony continues because the article states that there are students who are paying to expand their knowledge but are attending institutions that limit the information they have and therefore becoming counter-intuitive with community colleges being at the forefront of this.
Being in the role of an educator this proves problematic because those students in a secondary school are just starting to learn academic digital literacy. If they go to schools that will limit this or digital reline them then this stunts their digital literary growth and causes these individuals to not only get a limited education but be misled into thinking that community colleges are wells of knowledge that train them for the future.
_Digital Redlining, Access, and Privacy
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