{"id":273,"date":"2022-09-18T14:17:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T21:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0266\/?p=273"},"modified":"2022-10-04T08:28:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T15:28:51","slug":"people-in-the-field-nichole-pinkard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0266\/people-in-the-field-nichole-pinkard\/","title":{"rendered":"People in the field: Nichole Pinkard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I first started in the Master of Arts in Learning and Technology (MALAT) program, one area of interest that struck me almost immediately was equity in digital learning. Early on, I came across a series developed by Stanford University called, \u201cEducation\u2019s Digital Future: Equity by Design<\/a>\u201d (Stanford Graduate School of Education, 2016), and was introduced to Dr. Nichole Pinkard<\/a>. Pinkard<\/a> is an Associate Professor of Learning Sciences as well as Faculty Director of the Office of Community Education Partnerships (OCEP) in the\u00a0School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University in Illinois. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2004 Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies (Nichole Pinkard, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to her years dedicated to teaching<\/a> and research<\/a> in EdTech, she is the founder of Digital Youth Network<\/a>, which is an organization, developed through the University of Chicago\u2019s Urban Education Institute, aimed at supporting organizations, educators, and researchers through learning best practices in an effort to advance the digital literacy skills, predominantly in underserved communities in Chicago (Digital Youth Network, 2016).\u00a0 DYN has partnered with agencies such as the Chicago Public Library and Chicago City of Learning to introduce various programs and frameworks to support young people in their educational development through digital learning opportunities (Digital Youth Network, 2016b). One such program that is of great significance to me is the Digital Youth Divas<\/a> program (Digital Youth Network, 2016a), which is designed to help address the gender participation gap that Pinkard was seeing in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) (Stanford Graduate School of Education, 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pinkard\u2019s passion and advocacy for the advancement of digital literacy skills for youth in marginalized communities, particularly girls in those communities, is one that will help to combat some of the inequities in EdTech, and will allow for contributions and voices that might not have had the opportunity previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital Youth Network.<\/em> (2016a). Digital Youth Divas.Retrieved September 11, 2022, from http:\/\/digitalyouthnetwork.org\/divas\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital Youth Network.<\/em> (2016b). About us.Retrieved September 10, 2022, from http:\/\/digitalyouthnetwork.org\/#about-us<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google Scholar.<\/em> (n.d.). Nichole Pinkard. Retrieved September 10, 2022, from https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=YOtsHZkAAAAJ&hl=en<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

George Lucas Educational Foundation. (2013, February 6). Edutopia. https:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/video\/nichole-pinkard-digital-literacy-big-thinkers-series<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nichole Pinkard. (2021, November 25.) In Wikipedia.<\/em> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nichole_Pinkard<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pinkard, N. [@npinkard]. (n.d.). Tweets [Twitter profile]. Retrieved September 12, 2022, from https:\/\/twitter.com\/npinkard?lang=en<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stanford Graduate School of Education. (2016, May 10). Education\u2019s digital future: equity by design<\/em>. https:\/\/edfequity.stanford.edu\/schedule\/week-7-equity-making-and-creating-technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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