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: ITEC 7430 - Blog Post on Diversity
Reflection
The blog was created as a part of my portfolio for the Instructional Technology program. The blog was a place for me to reflect on how I was learning in the program and how it relates to my classroom. It was also a way for me to share ideas on the use of technology. For one of our blog posts, we were specifically asked to reflect on how technology can be used in order to increase cultural understanding and global awareness in our students.
Through my blog posts, I model and the use of digital tools and resources to support diverse student needs, enhance cultural understanding, and increase global awareness.
Technology is an important tool for connecting students to the world outside of their own. In my urban school, many students had little experiences outside of their own city. Using technology, we could explore worlds and people outside of our own community. Technology can help students understand their role in this global society.
As an educator, I have a responsibility to my students to bring the world to them, help them create some understand of what that world is, and how they fit in it. In the future, I would like to have my students interact whether through Skype, discussion boards, or email with various cultures in their study of mathematics. Student learning and school improvement is impacted by incorporating a mixture of instruction to support diverse student needs, enhance cultural understanding and increase global awareness. These can be assessed by observation of school culture that is open to diversity. The Internet can serve as a gateway to exploring other people, other cultures, and other places – and not from just an academic perspective. Social media, YouTube, and local news sites allow students see and view the world from a perspective other than their own. I do think as teachers we need to show our students and expose our students how to learn from others through the Internet, as it can also be used to divide people as well.
While my blog has mainly been used for assignments as part of my EdS program, I do follow a number of blogs by teachers for ideas and inspiration in my own classroom. It would be interesting to see if my blog had been read by people outside of my program.
The blog was created as a part of my portfolio for the Instructional Technology program. The blog was a place for me to reflect on how I was learning in the program and how it relates to my classroom. It was also a way for me to share ideas on the use of technology. For one of our blog posts, we were specifically asked to reflect on how technology can be used in order to increase cultural understanding and global awareness in our students.
Through my blog posts, I model and the use of digital tools and resources to support diverse student needs, enhance cultural understanding, and increase global awareness.
Technology is an important tool for connecting students to the world outside of their own. In my urban school, many students had little experiences outside of their own city. Using technology, we could explore worlds and people outside of our own community. Technology can help students understand their role in this global society.
As an educator, I have a responsibility to my students to bring the world to them, help them create some understand of what that world is, and how they fit in it. In the future, I would like to have my students interact whether through Skype, discussion boards, or email with various cultures in their study of mathematics. Student learning and school improvement is impacted by incorporating a mixture of instruction to support diverse student needs, enhance cultural understanding and increase global awareness. These can be assessed by observation of school culture that is open to diversity. The Internet can serve as a gateway to exploring other people, other cultures, and other places – and not from just an academic perspective. Social media, YouTube, and local news sites allow students see and view the world from a perspective other than their own. I do think as teachers we need to show our students and expose our students how to learn from others through the Internet, as it can also be used to divide people as well.
While my blog has mainly been used for assignments as part of my EdS program, I do follow a number of blogs by teachers for ideas and inspiration in my own classroom. It would be interesting to see if my blog had been read by people outside of my program.