Module 9

Diversity, cultural understanding, and global awareness (March 7-13, 2016)

Course Objectives:  

1. Model and promote diversity, cultural understanding, and global awareness by using digital-age communication and collaboration tools to interact locally and globally with students, peers, parents, and the larger community (ISTE 5c)

Module Objectives: 

1. Read and reflect upon a variety of readings surrounding cultural understanding and diversity.  
2. Participate in a conversation surrounding cultural understanding and diversity.  

1) The readings this week focus on diversity both within and outside of the United States as it relates to the use of technology in education with a particular focus on the digital divide.  (Visit our diigo group to see my highlights on the articles that would allow for it.) 

• The New Literacy: Scenes from the Digital Divide 2.0 (This has 5 parts. Please read all 5.)
• The Participation Divide: Content Creation and Sharing in the Digital Age (Click on PDF to read the article.  You are only required to read the introduction and conclusion.)
• Finding a Place in Cyberspace: Black Women, Technology and Identity
• Slamming the Closet Door and Taking Control: Analysis of Personal Transformation and Social Change as LGBT Podcasting Blazes a Trail of Democratization of the Media
• One Laptop Per Child mission (Watch both videos.)
• Can One Laptop per Child Reduce the Digital Divide and Educational Gap? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment from Migrant Schools in Beijing (You are only required to read the introduction and conclusion.)

2) Write your reflective post for this week.  

3) For your activity this week, visit my blog post here: http://issuesedtech.blogspot.com/2016/03/module-9-discussion.html and have a discussion in the comments section.  You should have at least 6 substantial contributions (total) to the conversations before Sunday at midnight.