Friday, July 20, 2018

Diversity influences and encourages perspective

For most children, their entire world is just one block wide.
From home, they get driven to school and maybe occasionally the supermarket or to grandma's house.
The internet is a great tool for kids to expand their horizons and learn about the world around them, unfortunately if parents don't know how to do this it won't happen.
In class, we discussed the significance of connectivism and how we are at this incredible crossroads where anyone from any background can collaborate with anyone else from any other background.

Being global citizens is vital in this day and age and in order to encourage critical thinking and encourage true problem-solving, students need to see different inequities and different ways of living and problem solving that others utilize.

A great example of the mix of technology and connectivism was at the school that I was an interventionist at last year.

Our students were very unmotivated as a whole and a lot of kids were making excuses to not come to school and were asking a lot of, "what's the point of school?"

Our principal pulled us all in the gym and set up several projectors and played videos of what students in other countries did JUST to get to school. The students were so in awe and then the principal asked students what she could do to make their learning experience better.

They said things like, "STEAM Day" and using the iPADs more?

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