Digital Diversity

Strategies and Competencies for Diversity-Sensitive Teaching and Learning in Digital Times

Abstract

Digital teaching and learning and diversity-sensitive teaching are often researched independently. This can quickly lead to overlooking the common origin of digitization (or early Internet culture) and an emancipatory diversity-sensitive stance. Uncovering the common origin in the emancipation movements at (US) universities in the 1960s to the early 1980s allows for practical consequences for a diversity-sensitive use of digital media in educational contexts. To accomplish this, the presentation is divided into three steps. In the first step, the development of a diversity-sensitive attitude will be reconstructed, and in the second step, the development of early Internet culture. Based on this genealogical reconstruction work, a competence model for a diversity-sensitive use of digital media in educational contexts will be presented.