4.3 Diversity, Cultural Understanding & Global Awareness
Candidates model and facilitate the use of digital tools and resources to support diverse student needs, enhance cultural understanding, and increase global awareness. (PSC 4.3/ISTE 5c)
Artifact: Diversity Blog Posting, ITEC7430.
Reflection:
This blog was created in the attempt to promote cultural understanding and to increase global awareness. It draws attention to the differences in culture among diverse groups of people, and the significance of culture within a particular group of people. The post suggests that living in harmony with the cultural groups means learning to understand their culture, and there are many ways that one can be made to understand other cultures. Suggestions are made for educators on how to promote cultural understanding in the classroom and how to help students with different cultural backgrounds to adapt to the challenges of the classroom.
The blog post supports diverse student needs in the recommendations that it offers for how students can share information about their culture and how teachers can make students understand other cultures so that the students live in harmony within the classroom. The post recommends some technology tools that teachers can use to help promote classroom collaboration. Students will have to read about and collaborate with people of other cultures in order to understand them better. Such a collaboration could be achieved through video conferencing with other students in other parts of the world, and engaging in other social networking environments.
Creating the blog post offered the opportunity to learn about some of the best practices that educators are using to let their student learn about other cultures, and how they use technology to promote collaboration regardless of the cultural background. The blog post could be improved by embedding a video that demonstrates the progress some schools are making in ensuring that all students of diverse backgrounds are given the same educational opportunity within the learning environment.
This blog was created in the attempt to promote cultural understanding and to increase global awareness. It draws attention to the differences in culture among diverse groups of people, and the significance of culture within a particular group of people. The post suggests that living in harmony with the cultural groups means learning to understand their culture, and there are many ways that one can be made to understand other cultures. Suggestions are made for educators on how to promote cultural understanding in the classroom and how to help students with different cultural backgrounds to adapt to the challenges of the classroom.
The blog post supports diverse student needs in the recommendations that it offers for how students can share information about their culture and how teachers can make students understand other cultures so that the students live in harmony within the classroom. The post recommends some technology tools that teachers can use to help promote classroom collaboration. Students will have to read about and collaborate with people of other cultures in order to understand them better. Such a collaboration could be achieved through video conferencing with other students in other parts of the world, and engaging in other social networking environments.
Creating the blog post offered the opportunity to learn about some of the best practices that educators are using to let their student learn about other cultures, and how they use technology to promote collaboration regardless of the cultural background. The blog post could be improved by embedding a video that demonstrates the progress some schools are making in ensuring that all students of diverse backgrounds are given the same educational opportunity within the learning environment.