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Alice and Kev

Digital storytelling using the Sims 3, telling the tale of a homeless father and daughter. Really great emotional work with both the images and the writing.

Tags: digitalstorytelling, games, diversity on 2009-06-18 and saved by 5 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Will at Work Learning: New Research Report on Using Culturally, Linguistically, and Situationally Relevant Scenarios

Research on how to support learning with scenarios that are relevant to the specific situation. Even though this is explicitly about workplace training, the major recommendations could be adapted for instructional design in education contexts too.

Tags: learning, training, research, scenarios, context, diversity, instructionaldesign on 2009-04-16 -All Annotations (2) -About

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Only for MY Kid

1998 article by Alfie Kohn on barriers to progressive changes in education, with some proposals for better approaches for working with parents to help them see the benefits

Tags: education, k-12, highered, diversity, economics on 2009-04-10 -All Annotations (1) -About

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Inside Higher Ed: The Impact of Dropping the SAT

Want to improve diversity at a college without spending a lot of money? Drop the requirement for SAT or ACT as part of admissions.

Tags: education, highered, standardizedtests, diversity on 2009-03-26 and saved by 6 people -All Annotations (2) -About

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Role Models in Educational Technology on Ada Lovelace Day | Janet Clarey

Extensive list of women in educational technology, including many bloggers. A number of new names for me here.

Tags: education, technology, e-learning, instructionaldesign, motivation, diversity on 2009-03-25 and saved by 13 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Designing for Social Justice

Short PDF ebook (60 pages) on using user-centered design and technology to promote social justice in learning

Tags: diversity, socialjustice, technology, education, accessibility on 2008-11-19 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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ZaidLearn: 27 Inspiring Women Edubloggers

Zaid Ali Alsagoff responds to the discussion about his previous edublogger list being male-dominated (22-3) with a list of women edubloggers. Also check the comments, especially Janet Clarey's explanation of why this discussion matters (with 10 full APA citations--gotta love it).

Tags: diversity, blog, education, e-learning on 2008-10-10 and saved by 7 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Groups Vs Networks: The Class Struggle Continues ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes

Transcript of a talk about the differences between groups and networks. Downes situates networks between individuals and groups, as a place where individuals are associated and connected but more diverse than groups. Interesting ideas for assessment and supporting diversity.

Tags: connectivism, cck08, networks, learning, assessment, diversity on 2008-10-05 and saved by 18 people -All Annotations (124) -About

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Those of you who've taken political science know that all of human history in political science is the division between the individual and the state. Right? The person and the group, right? And these are the two divides. And the whole purpose of politics is to find some sort of accommodation for them or if you're Ayn Rand, to favor the individual and ignore the group.

And it seems to me that networks offers that middle way. Networks offers that path that isn't the individual and isn't the group, doesn't force you to choose between the individual and the group.
But more or less, a group is a collection of entities or members according to their nature or their feature or their properties or whatever, their essential nature, maybe, their accidental nature, maybe, whatever, but according to their nature. What defines a group is the quality the members possess in common and then the number of members in that group. Groups are about nature, they're about quality, they're about mass. They're about number.

A network, by contrast, is an association â I use that word very precisely â an association of entities or members where this association is facilitated or created by a set of connections between those entities. And if you say, "Well what is a connection?" A connection is merely some conduit along which a signal can run. Well, that clarified it, didn't it? What defines a network is the nature and the extent of this connectivity. The nature and the extent to which these individuals are connected together.
I want to change the system of assessment in schools because right now we have tests and things like that that are scrupulously fair, particularly distance learning where we outline the objectives the performance metrics and the outcomes and all of that. I want to scrap that system. I want testing to be done by at random by comments from your peers and other people and strangers based on no criteria whatsoever and applied unequally and unfairly.
Networks are almost defined by the opposite, defined by their diversity. A network thrives on diversity. It wouldn't be a network without diversity.
Internet technology that encourages diversity rather than conformity includes things like personal home pages or these days, blogs. I should add to this slide MySpace profiles and things like that, your account on Flickr. All of these things that allows the individual to express themselves rather than the individual being part of some larger entity.

Main Page - Social Justice Wiki

Collection of student research on social justice organizations in New York City. Created with a wik: each time the professor teaches the class, more organizations will be added to the growing resource.

Tags: socialjustice, diversity, wiki, highered, education on 2008-07-16 and saved by 8 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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SpeEdChange: Left Behind

Looking at the resistance to change in education and the need for 21st century skills, with an intriguing perspective on how this connects to our attitudes about ADHD, Asperger's, and other cognitive disabilities.

Tags: change, education, accessibility, 21stcenturyskills, diversity, technology on 2008-07-07 -All Annotations (0) -About

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This is why - I think unconsciously - so many academics and educators resist contemporary ICT so fiercely. Accepting these new technologies means that the advantages they were taught to prize in themselves - their study habits, their ability to focus, their willingness to depend on authoritative sources and to observe classroom rules - might prove to be their undoing. And the disadvantages they despised in others, ADHD for example, processing information via pictures instead of the abstraction of text as another, the disadvantages that have been labelled as pathological "disabilities," might prove to be advantageous in this new world.
That ADHD kid might be far better in front of multiple monitors with a dozen windows open and 15 tabs going in Firefox than the professor and former high school valedictorian who is really uncomfortable if a TV is on while she is reading. That Asperger's kid who processes images efficiently might be far better at analysing changing maps than the text-dependent historian.
I feel the same watching most classrooms, seeing most reading assignments, observing how assessments are conducted in educational institutions. Yes, that carriage is wonderful, but the cars will rush past it. Yes, that calligraphy is beautiful but you just spent six months creating a single book. Certainly, that bronze sword is beautiful but the steel weapon will cut it in half. Yes, you did wonderfully on the multiple-choice exam but I need people who can find information and develop new ideas, not repeat what I already know. Yes, you read that whole book, but I need to know the range of observations from these twelve sources around the globe.

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Online Tutoring e-Book 6 - Culture and Ethics - Facilitating Online Learning

Although this is written specifically for online tutors, much of the information and advice applies to online facilitators as well. The authors examine cultural differences in the online learning environment, including how diversity affects language, written text, images, metaphors, communication style, and online presence. Appendix B is a chart comparing different linguistic groups and cultures.

Tags: FST, diversity, e-learning, teaching, communication, community on 2008-07-01 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Web-based Learning Design: Planning for Diversity

2002 summary of research on how diversity affects online learning, focusing especially on Hispanics. Includes differences in communication due to culture, including differences between different Hispanic populations (i.e., Mexico isn't the same as Guatemala). Also notes that Hispanics are often on the wrong side of the digital divide and may have less prior experience with technology, therefore exhibiting fewer characteristics of the net generation.

Tags: diversity, FST, instructionaldesign, e-learning, highered, digitaldivide, netgeneration, communication on 2008-06-30 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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JALN: Does one size fit all? Exploring Asynchronous learning in a multicultural environment

Small-scale study of cultural differences in an asynchronous learning environment, focusing on high and low context cultures. Includes a comparison of student perceptions of online learning based on their cultural background. High and low context learners both saw advantages to online learning, but their reasons differ.

Tags: diversity, e-learning, highered, asynchronous, research, context, communication on 2008-06-26 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Because computer mediated communications is language (specifically, written
word) dependant, it is subject to the constraints of low/high context
cultural patterns [46]. As indicated earlier, the
role of language is to carry meaning, and interpretation is an integral
part of culture. Language is one means of establishing context among participants
of a particular culture group. In low context cultures, language must
be specific and well defined, to provide the contextual definition in
which to interpret the communication. On the other hand, in a high context
culture language may be vague, lacking the specificity of the low context
culture, as the environment within which communication takes place clarifies
the specific meaning of language [36, 41].
Thus language plays a key role in the communication process. A key issue
determining the success of computer mediated communication is the encoding/decoding
by which that communication is done. Given that computer-mediated communication
is a textual (electronic) rather than a visual (face-to-face) medium,
meaning must be carried by the language itself rather than relying on
the environmental context as the means of communication and/or interpretation.
Given this relationship, because the language of communication is English,
low context communication is presumed, thus perhaps disadvantaging those
whose cultural background relies on high context communication.
Interestingly,
low context participants concentrate on the participation environment,
while high context participants concentrate on their individual work/effort
and/or skills in the discussion.
Noticeably
however, the responses indicate that cultural background directly influences
the priority of perceived benefits received and challenges posed from
the same asynchronous communication network. The perceptions are based
on learning patterns which are developed as part of a participants’
ethnic/cultural development, and are potentially challenged by participation
in an asynchronous communication network, which of itself is implicitly
culturally based. Further, high context participants in an asynchronously
delivered seminar, while assured of higher quality participation through
an offline ability to infer meaning through low context communications,
are at least initially more likely to be disadvantaged by technology differences
as well as the communications norms implicit in their cultural background.

An Inclusive Approach to Online Learning Environments: Models and Resources (PDF)

22-page article on designing for diversity in online learning. Examines how cultural differences can affect learning and shares culturally inclusive instructional design models. Table 1 on page 6 compares high-context and low-context learning (such as how formal student-teacher relationships are).

Tags: e-learning, highered, diversity, communication, community, context, instructionaldesign on 2008-06-26 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Designing for Diversity Within Online Learning Environments

The author argues that constructivist learning environments where multiple perspectives are respected and there is no single "right "answer" are better for encouraging diversity. The ideas for instructional design for diversity are more theory-based than practice-based, but this has some interesting concepts.

"The major advantage of this learning model is that one of its key design goals is to encourage students to bring multiple perspectives to questions/cases/problems/issues and projects as part of their learning. This approach to learning views diversity as a strength to be exploited rather than a problem to be solved."

Tags: diversity, e-learning, constructivism, instructionaldesign, highered on 2008-06-26 -All Annotations (0) -About

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absolutely intercultural!

Tags: blog, e-learning, education, diversity, podcast on 2008-06-08 and saved by 29 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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ParentCentral.ca - News & Features - Where teachers learn diversity

Article from the Toronto Star on integrating diversity in teacher education programs, therefore fostering a sense of respect for diversity in the classroom. Nice example of integrating diverse perspectives in geometry using Moroccan tiles, plus community involvement through parent computer training.

Tags: teachered, diversity, education on 2008-05-22 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Getting Results

Free online professional development course for community college instructors from WGBH & the League of Innovation. You can follow a linear path or skip around to the parts you want. Content includes diversity, active learning, technology, and assessment.

Tags: highered, education, profdev, diversity, technology, assessment, e-learning on 2008-04-24 and saved by 15 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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Top News - Panelists: Online learning can help minority students

Advantages for online learning at the K-12 level to help disadvantaged students. In spite of the title, this is about more than just racial issues.

Tags: e-learning, k-12, diversity, digitaldivide on 2008-04-11 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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ASCD: Whose Problem Is Poverty?

Educational Leadership article arguing that closing the achievement gap requires a combination of both improved education and improved socionomic conditions. The article lists a number of health issues for low-income children that can affect student achievement.

Tags: diversity, education, k-12 on 2008-04-10 and saved by 5 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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