Teaching and Learning Diversity in the Digital Era

• In Event: Roundtable Session 27
  In Roundtable Session: Multicultural/Multiethnic Education: Training and Development

Abstract

This presentation describes a classroom project developed in a course on diversity education that required students to use digital media and technology as a way to cross cultural borders. Students were required to engage in some form of intercultural communication with people, organizations or communities different from the ones they already belonged to and to learn about a different socio-economic and cultural context and different ways of relating to the world. Students kept a blog/journal in which they recorded their experiences. The project resulted in an increased awareness of the potential of social networks and online learning platforms in helping students cross cultural borders and participate in different socio-cultural communities.

Author

• Fernando Naiditch, Montclair State University