The Digital Edge - S. Craig Watkins Connected Youth and Digital Futures

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      The Digital Edge

      CONNECTED YOUTH AND DIGITAL FUTURES

      Series Editor: Julian Sefton-Green

      This series explores young people’s day-to-day lives and futures. The volumes consider changes at the intersection of civil and political reform, transformations in employment and education, and the growing presence of digital technologies in all aspects of social, cultural, and political life. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning (DML) Initiative has supported two research networks that have helped launch this series: the Youth and Participatory Politics Research Network and the Connected Learning Research Network. The DML Initiative and the DML Hub at the University of California, Irvine, also support production and open access for this series.

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      By Any Media Necessary: The New Activism of American Youth

      Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shresthova, Liana Gamber-Thompson, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, and Arely Zimmerman

      The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age

      Sonia Livingstone and Julian Sefton-Green

      The Digital Edge: How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality

      S. Craig Watkins with Andres Lombana-Bermudez, Alexander Cho, Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Vivian Shaw, and Lauren Weinzimmer

      The Digital Edge

      How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality

      S. Craig Watkins

      with Andres Lombana-Bermudez

      Alexander Cho

      Vivian Shaw

      Jacqueline Ryan Vickery

      Lauren Weinzimmer

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      © 2018 by S. Craig Watkins

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      References to Internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor New York University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Watkins, S. Craig (Samuel Craig), author.

      Title: The digital edge : how Black and Latino youth navigate digital inequality / S. Craig Watkins [and five others].

      Description: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2018] | Series: Connected youth and digital futures | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018021509| ISBN 9781479854110 (cl : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781479849857 (pb : alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Digital divide—United States. | Internet and youth—United States. | African American youth—Social conditions. | Hispanic American youth—Social conditions. | Low income high school students—United States. | Equality—United States.

      Classification: LCC HN90.I56 W38 2018 | DDC 303.48/33—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018021509

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      This book is dedicated to the students, teachers, parents, and guardians who welcomed us into their classrooms, homes, and lives.

      Contents

       Preface

      S. Craig Watkins

       Acknowledgments

       Introduction: The Digital Edge

      S. Craig Watkins

       1 How Black and Latino Youth Are Remaking the Digital Divide

      S. Craig Watkins

       2 The Mobile Paradox: Understanding the Mobile Lives of Latino and Black Youth

      S. Craig Watkins

       3 Technology on the Edge of Formal Education

      Jacqueline Ryan Vickery and Vivian Shaw

       4 The STEM Crisis in Education

      S. Craig Watkins

       5 Gaming School: How Students Strive to Learn in Technology-Rich, Curriculum-Poor Classrooms

      S. Craig Watkins

       6 After the Bell: Why What Kids Do after School Matters

      S. Craig Watkins, Andres Lombana-Bermudez, and Lauren Weinzimmer

       7 Dissonant Futures

      Alexander Cho, Vivian Shaw, and S. Craig Watkins

       Conclusion: Future Ready: Preparing Young People for Tomorrow’s World

      S. Craig Watkins

       Appendix: Design of the Study

      Alexander Cho, Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Andres Lombana-Bermudez, and S. Craig Watkins

       Notes

       References

       Index

       About the Authors

      Preface

      S. Craig Watkins

      In 2010, just a year into Barack Obama’s first term as president, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology submitted an ambitious 142-page report that outlined the challenges and opportunities related to revitalizing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education in the United States. The council operated from the widely accepted premise that the nation must redesign education for a world that is undergoing steady and profound social, economic, and technological change.

      As president of the United States, Mr. Obama led several high-profile initiatives that were intended to bolster America’s technological and economic future by improving

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