4.3 Diversity, Cultural Understanding, and 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 Post
This artifact was created in ITEC 7430, Internet Tools in the Classroom. I read several articles dedicated to diversity in the classroom. Each article addressed issues and strategies that could be utilized to ensure diversity for all students is realized. The blog post I composed is in response to one of the articles I read and my opinions, learning, and ideas regarding diversity in the classroom.
This artifact shows mastery of Standard 4.3 because it shares my views, learning, and explanation of how I model and facilitate the use of digital tools to support of diverse student needs, enhance cultural understanding, and increase global awareness. Our world more than ever is globally connected, and our students need to learn how to be a contributing part. The Internet is an amazing digital tool to help our students better understand and respect the diversity of the world. Before the Internet was so widely available to our students, their main way of obtaining information about other cultures was done through textbooks, and maybe the news on television. Now, it is so much easier and faster to obtain information using the Internet. Students can connect with people from around the world using blogs, social media, websites, and news reports that they may not have had access to in the past. These outlets of information can help our students see that there is so much more out there than what they surround themselves with every day in their classrooms and within their group of peers. Through the completion of this artifact, I was able to model, share and facilitate how I use digital tools to support diversity, increase global awareness, and enhance student understanding. In my classes, I differentiate for my students using digital tools in a variety of ways. Text to speech software, Web 2.0 tools, online simulations, and Google Translate are several of the ways diverse student needs can be met. Classrooms across the nation are becoming more diverse as our world becomes more connected and it is essential that teachers utilize the vast array of tools available to them to model and facilitate how to support diverse student needs.
Through the completion of this artifact, I learned a great deal about diversity and increasing global awareness in the classroom. The four articles I read really impacted the way I think about differentiation in the classroom and ensuring all students feel supported and connected. I learned strategies to ensure all students feel welcomed and ways to teach other students about the importance of accepting all cultures. It is often difficult for middle school students to understand cultures that are different from their own. By opening their eyes to other cultures at a young age, it is more likely that they will begin to see differences among people are not bad. By using digital tools to allow students to explore other cultures, we are improving their knowledge and understanding of the world around them.
The work that went into this artifact impacted student learning. It included ways for teachers to share the idea of diversity and understanding with their students and encourage cultural understanding and acceptance of student differences. When teachers share, model, and facilitate acceptance of differences, students can begin to learn about what it means to be diverse. Students can develop an understanding of how diversity can impact their knowledge and improve their lives through experiencing other cultures. This can be assessed through student surveys. The survey can ask questions pertaining to student knowledge, and beliefs of a variety of cultures. The survey will indicate whether students are learning and accepting the idea of diversity and cultural acceptance and global awareness.
This artifact was created in ITEC 7430, Internet Tools in the Classroom. I read several articles dedicated to diversity in the classroom. Each article addressed issues and strategies that could be utilized to ensure diversity for all students is realized. The blog post I composed is in response to one of the articles I read and my opinions, learning, and ideas regarding diversity in the classroom.
This artifact shows mastery of Standard 4.3 because it shares my views, learning, and explanation of how I model and facilitate the use of digital tools to support of diverse student needs, enhance cultural understanding, and increase global awareness. Our world more than ever is globally connected, and our students need to learn how to be a contributing part. The Internet is an amazing digital tool to help our students better understand and respect the diversity of the world. Before the Internet was so widely available to our students, their main way of obtaining information about other cultures was done through textbooks, and maybe the news on television. Now, it is so much easier and faster to obtain information using the Internet. Students can connect with people from around the world using blogs, social media, websites, and news reports that they may not have had access to in the past. These outlets of information can help our students see that there is so much more out there than what they surround themselves with every day in their classrooms and within their group of peers. Through the completion of this artifact, I was able to model, share and facilitate how I use digital tools to support diversity, increase global awareness, and enhance student understanding. In my classes, I differentiate for my students using digital tools in a variety of ways. Text to speech software, Web 2.0 tools, online simulations, and Google Translate are several of the ways diverse student needs can be met. Classrooms across the nation are becoming more diverse as our world becomes more connected and it is essential that teachers utilize the vast array of tools available to them to model and facilitate how to support diverse student needs.
Through the completion of this artifact, I learned a great deal about diversity and increasing global awareness in the classroom. The four articles I read really impacted the way I think about differentiation in the classroom and ensuring all students feel supported and connected. I learned strategies to ensure all students feel welcomed and ways to teach other students about the importance of accepting all cultures. It is often difficult for middle school students to understand cultures that are different from their own. By opening their eyes to other cultures at a young age, it is more likely that they will begin to see differences among people are not bad. By using digital tools to allow students to explore other cultures, we are improving their knowledge and understanding of the world around them.
The work that went into this artifact impacted student learning. It included ways for teachers to share the idea of diversity and understanding with their students and encourage cultural understanding and acceptance of student differences. When teachers share, model, and facilitate acceptance of differences, students can begin to learn about what it means to be diverse. Students can develop an understanding of how diversity can impact their knowledge and improve their lives through experiencing other cultures. This can be assessed through student surveys. The survey can ask questions pertaining to student knowledge, and beliefs of a variety of cultures. The survey will indicate whether students are learning and accepting the idea of diversity and cultural acceptance and global awareness.