The 8-Bit Instructor: Racial Inequalities in Education with Asao Inoue Part 2 (EP020)

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Episode 20

In this week’s episode, Asao Inoue and I finish our discussion on racial inequalities in education. Plus, some updates from Kami and Google, this week’s treasure chest, and, of course, your question of the week.

News & Updates

• Kami
  • Kami & Microsoft integration
  • Add Media tool
  • Improvements & bug fixes
• Google
  • New comment interface for Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides rolling out to more devices
  • Improvements to PDFs imported to Google Docs
  • Customize text style and appearance in Google Sites (YES!!!)

Treasure Chest: Grouping Tabs in Chrome

• Right click on a tab and select “Add Tab to New Group”
• Label, color-code, collapse and expand groups

Boss Battle: Racial Inequalities in Education with Asao Inoue

• Inequalities outside of reading and writing
  • Women in math
    • Claude Steele’s study
    • seeing a field dominated by men presented stereotypes that women weren’t good at math
    • feeling out of place only increases the stereotype
  • the magic number – 1/3 of the students need to be the same to make the stereotype go away
• Taking steps up the steep hill
  • The Bird Cage Metaphor
    • many-wired cage
    • snip a wire, but you’re still trapped in the cage
• How do we talk about it with our students?
  • It doesn’t have to be a personal issue
  • It’s a larger structure that creates indifference
  • We have to figure out how to talk about the systems and how they lead back to our actions and beliefs
• How do we apply this in our classrooms?
  • Orientation to anti-racism
  • We don’t tear don’t systems and have anarchy
  • We tear down systems and create a better one
• Check out Asao’s stuff online
  • Anti-racist Writing Assessment Ecologies
  • Labor-based Grading Contracts
  • Asao’s blog
  • Asao on Twitter

Crew Members’ Board (#8BitCrew)

QOTW: What’s your action step? What can you do to try to create a more equitable culture in your classroom?

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Credits

Music by David Fesliyan (https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/)

• Intro/Outro: “Retro Platforming”
• Boss Battle: “Boss Battle Rock”
• Crew Member’s Board: “Pirate Dance”
• Wrap up: “Game Over” by Patrick de Arteaga

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