CACP Researchers Salimah LaForce and Dara Bright are co-authors on a recently published article in IEEE Magazine IT Professional.

Educating Minoritized Students in the United States During COID-19: How Technology Can be Both the Problem and the Solution

The COVID-19 pandemic has had major implications on socially vulnerable populations, especially minoritized populations. This article examines how technology-mediated learning can both operate as a tool to rectify inequities and a weapon that antagonizes existing divides for socially disadvantaged minoritized Black students. In analyzing this subsection of the population, we discuss technology-mediated learning during the pandemic and access problems that arise due to socially disadvantaged students' systematic inequalities. This article finds that technology is an essential tool that can be a solution to help rectify inequalities during crisis, coupled with models of success and future research.