{"id":5521,"date":"2025-02-19T15:17:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T20:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/?p=5521"},"modified":"2025-02-19T15:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T20:17:27","slug":"the-forgotten-black-innovators-of-ed-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/the-forgotten-black-innovators-of-ed-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forgotten Black Innovators of Ed Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black History is vast and most of us are only taught a small fraction of it. This month ITG wants to highlight the work of black innovators in Ed Tech. Professor Shayan Doroudi of University of California, Irvine, has written a series of posts about <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black educational technology innovators. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These innovators did cutting-edge work. Check them out:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/uci.edu\/shayan-doroudi\/blog\/black-ed-tech-innovators-1?authuser=0\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Part I &#8211; Dr. Weusi-Puryear and Dr. Weusijana<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">were pioneers in educational game design, working ahead of their time building computer models of dialogue for educational use in the 1960\u2019s and 1970\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/uci.edu\/shayan-doroudi\/blog\/black-ed-tech-innovators-2?authuser=0\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Part II &#8211; Dr. Roulette William Smith<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was an early educational technology researcher and a polymath. His dissertation \u201cModeling Instruction Using Computer Generated Dialogue,\u201d was one of the earliest applications of AI to education, predating the first conference on AI and education by over a decade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/uci.edu\/shayan-doroudi\/blog\/black-ed-tech-innovators-3?authuser=0\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Part III &#8211; Dr. Shaw and His Mentors<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alan Clinton Shaw was born in 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. He created a model for how individual cognitive developmental paradigms can be used to guide technological approaches intended to foster social development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check them out at<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/uci.edu\/shayan-doroudi\/blog\/black-ed-tech-innovators-1?authuser=0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Prof. Shayan Doroudi&#8217;s site<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black History is vast and most of us are only taught a small fraction of it. This month ITG wants to highlight the work of black innovators in Ed Tech&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5522,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions\/5522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}