In today's world of big data and online education, we face the challenges of corporate interests out to profit from user profiling, institutions ready to outsource every aspect of education, and the unquestioning acceptance of conditions that exploit the powerless and disenfranchised. Educators must speak up on behalf of our students.

1. ACCESS
﹙
ABLE
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ENVISIONING PEDAGOGUES AS STUDENT ADVOCATES IN DIGITAL SPACES
 Chris Friend (he/him/his) |  Hybrid Pedagogy & Kean University
 @chris_friend |  cfriend@kean.edu |  https://chrisfriend.us

2. “Then they came for me — and there
was no one left to speak for me.”
— MARTIN NIEMÖLLER, 1946

3. Digital diversity empowers students.
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4. ANECDOTE:
DIVERSITY AT DISNEY
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5. ANECDOTE: DIVERSITY
AT STARBUCKS
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6. THE IMPORTANCE OF AGNOSTICISM
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7. THE IMPORTANCE
OF FIDELITY
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8. Tweet Content
Excited to start off @DPIConference tomorrow
with a discussion of diversity, access, accessibility.
Join me for “Access(Able): Envisioning Pedagogues
as Student Advocates in Digital Spaces” at 9:30 ET.
#DigPed https://uwaterloo.ca/digital-pedagogy-
institute/
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9. Accessibility bene
fi
ts everyone.
Tech is a red herring.
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10. THE “CURB-CUT EFFECT”
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11.  
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
W3C ACCESSIBILITY PRINCIPLES
PERCEIVABLE OPERABLE UNDERSTANDABLE ROBUST

12. APPLYING W3C ACCESSIBILITY TO PEDAGOGY
Focus Perceivable Operable Understandable Robust
Technology
(Examples from
Lafayette College)
Alt-text tags
Recorded/captioned
lectures
Consistent fonts
Mobile websites
Dictation software
Playback controls
Simple language
Clear navigation
Device agnosticism
OS agnosticism
Assist-tech agnosticism
People
Students can access
course/content on
their terms when they
need
Students practice
disciplinary approaches
to current situations
Clear purpose,
usefulness, and
necessity of tasks
Learning experiences
transfer outside this
class/app/decade

13. “The nature of access, of being
included, meant that you had to in
some ways force yourself upon the
world.”
— LAWRENCE CARTER-LONG
COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, DISABILITY RIGHTS EDUCATION AND DEFENSE FUND

14. PRINCIPLES OF ETHICAL ED-TECH
DISCIPLINARITY FUNCTIONALITY FIDELITY OPENNESS
AGNOSTICISM
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15. Access (dis)empowers people.
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16. COVID-19TEST TOS WORD COUNTS
WALGREENS
Notice of Privacy Practices
PWNHEALTH
Policies &Terms of Service
WALGREENS
Terms of Use
2,826 4,827 4,153

17. HOW DO
STUDENTS ACCESS
YOUR CONTENT?
PHOTO BY VANNA PHON ON UNSPLASH

18. “You turned ad personalization off.You can turn it back on to
make your ads more useful to you on Google services.”

19. YOUR IDENTITY
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20. Access to disciplinary information
helps students learn.
Access to student information
helps corporations pro
fi
t.

21. AND THEN, THE “PIVOT”

22. ZOOM CLASSES
INVADE PRIVACY.
cb Hector Alejandro on Flickr

23. “It is not just the responsibility of ‘the
tech people’ in the humanities to
engage in action, but the responsibility
of us all.”
— STEPHANIE VIE, 2021

24. Students have been disempowered by ed-tech.
We must force ourselves upon the world and
reduce demands for student data.

25.  Chris Friend
 Hybrid Pedagogy & Kean University
 @chris_friend
 cfriend@kean.edu
 https://chrisfriend.us
THANK YOU.
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