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Urban Education and Technology in the Digital Age

Although computer technology has been available in urban schools since the 1980s, the promise of technology to alter the conditions and life choices of urban school populations has yet to be fully tapped. As technological innovations continue to redefine relations among people, relations of capital, and the organization of world economies, education’s relationship to technology becomes all the more important. The use of these tools continues to provide excitement and challenges, especially during the past 10 years with the availability of the Internet and the World Wide Web. But even as new technologies have the potential to equalize the economic and political inequalities that define the context of urban education, the drive to prepare urban students for technology industry often parallels earlier drives to prepare urban students for industrial education. Because some issues raised by technology are new and others are enduring, this special issue is at once concerned with pedagogical approaches to technology that mine the particular strengths inherent in technologies, but also cautious about the push to have urban students involved in lower tiers of technology industries. Authors in this issue address these issues in K-12 and higher education contexts, with particular emphasis on how technology affects underrepresented populations and how technology might be used to intervene in social issues such as racism and other forms of school-based conflict that frame the experiences of urban students. The articles in this special issue demonstrate the importance of examining how urban communities have been impacted by various