The following resources may help with reflection and identify actions that you may be able to undertake.
Resources have been grouped in relation to the sections identified in the reflection tool.
Communities
The Design for Diversity™(D4D) framework talks about how different audience communities may be included or excluded in pieces of work, and the ways in which engaging with those communities can be harmful unless done right (for example putting more workload on them by expecting them to engage as ‘volunteers’).
The University of Edinburgh Information Services Group Antiracist Reading List covers sources on the historical racist context of technology, for example.
The project team
Beyond groups at your institution, there is the ALT Anti-Racism & Learning Technology Group which you can join and ask questions of.
The NUS Decolonise Education presents: your collaborative is another group sitting above the institution level.
Pointing others to relevant items from reading lists such as the University of Edinburgh Information Services Group Antiracist Reading List might be one way to engage other institutional groups or individuals.
Learning content
The University of Liverpool Decolonising the Curriculum Toolkit is a similar tool to this, aimed at programme leaders to help ‘audit’ curriculum content and take action.
Other toolkits:
- Decolonising SOAS Learning and Teaching Toolkit for Programme and Module Convenors
- the Teeside university/Jisc Digital Learning Design Toolkit for course teams
- UCL BAME Awarding Gap: new staff toolkit
- University of the Arts London AEM and Attainment Resources
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 are aimed at practices and settings to make digital content accessible for disabled people, important intersections with race.
The UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) covers responsibility for protecting the data of users of your content. The protection of the data of excluded communities can be particularly important.
Imagery, representation and language guides:
- ForumOne How to choose diverse and inclusive photos – points to consider
- Pexels – Diversity – stock of images
- UK Government Inclusive Communication
- National Assembly of State Arts Agency – Inclusive Language Guide
- NHS Inclusive Language
- Chartered Institute of Insurance Inclusive Language Guide
As a subject-specific example, in the field of medicine, there are resources such as the Mind The Gap clinical handbook for black and brown skin, the Brown Skin Matters medical image database and the Skin Deep Paediatric medical image database.
Tools and platforms
The ALT’s Framework for Ethical Learning Technology (FELT) is a framework for using learning technologies.
The University of Edinburgh Information Services Group Antiracist Reading List ‘inequalities in tech’ section covers examples of how racism exists in platforms/technologies.
Traxler, J. (2017). Learning with Mobiles in Developing Countries: Technology, Language, and Literacy. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 9 (2), pp 1-15.
Post-project reflection
One way to run a group ‘retrospective’ can be to use some variation of the basic questions ‘what went well/what didn’t go well/what questions do we still have’ – for example this four question retrospective model.
The Design for Diversity™(D4D) framework talks about the ongoing process of improving the work with feedback from excluded communities.
Learning Technologists’ Anti-Racism Tool by Samantha Ahern, Alistair Cooper, Coco Nijhoff is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
