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Building fairer futures, challenging educational divides

Vision

Futurelab’s Digital Inclusion programme will address two critical questions:

  • In what ways can the design and use of digital technologies promote educational equality?
  • How can we address the new educational divides emerging in digitally rich societies?

Futurelab aims to build constructive partnerships with other organisations and individuals tackling these issues, working together towards educational equality.

We will gather evidence and conduct original research to understand and address these questions, building on existing good practice, and generating models for new ways to work towards greater inclusion and equality.

Outputs from this programme will provide tools, resources and guidance to policy makers, learning institutions, networks and practitioners, and the educational, technology, media and creative industries.

Send us your inclusive education examples

We're gathering examples from schools on how they are using technology to help deliver an inclusive education for all the young people on their roll. The use of technology may have been used to support school improvement, student voice initiatives, the Every Child Matters agenda, extended schools and even the Aim Higher agenda (raising aspirations).

If you have any examples that you would like to share and are happy for them to be showcased in a future Futurelab/Becta publication, please contact Dr Leila Walker at leila [dot] walker [at] futurelab [dot] org [dot] uk by 7 November. We look forward to hearing from you.

Key links relating to this theme

Ideas Incubator:
The theme of our Ideas Incubator this year was supporting learning outside school. Find out about the outcomes...

Resources:
Designing educational technologies for social justice (handbook)
Beyond the digital divide (Opening Education report)
E-inclusion: learning difficulties and digital technologies (literature review)
Learning to be part of the knowledge economy: digital divides and media literacy (discussion paper)
Digital resources to support basic skills education for 14-19 year-olds (research report)
Designing to change the world (provocation paper for workshop on 'User-centred design for social justice' - 66kb pdf)

Events:
Assessment for Social Justice workshop (28 February 2008) - report available
Informal Learning and New Technologies: Co-design workshop for young people (28 May 2008) - report and video available
Digital Inclusion: Building fairer futures, challenging educational divides (12 June 2007) - audio downloads of presentations from this event are available, as well as a report on the outcomes

FLUX posts:
Search results for blog posts tagged with 'digital inclusion'

Other:
Search results for Futurelab web content tagged with 'digital inclusion'