| Course ID: | EDIT 4600E/6600E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Diversity, Technology, and Learning |
Course
Description: | Investigation of current issues at the intersection(s) of
cultural diversity, technology, and learning. Though designed
especially for students who are or plan to be educators, this
course is appropriate for students in all majors who are
interested in such issues. |
| Oasis Title: | Diversity Technology Learning |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in EDIT 4600 or EDIT 6600 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Students will develop understandings and dispositions to act upon
their understandings of:
--The nature of culture and the multiple cultures in which we all
participate;
--Some aims and principles of multicultural education/education
for diversity;
--How diversity in race, language, gender, socioeconomic status,
and/or abilities affects people's lives, learning, education, and
technology access and use, nationally and globally;
--How emerging technologies can sometimes increase national and
global inequities in opportunity and learning due to such
diversity;
--How emerging technologies have been and can be used to
encourage learning, increase equity of opportunity, and enhance
the lives of all people, especially through education. |
| Topical Outline: | I. Culture and Education
II. Multicultural Education: History, Aims, and Principles
III. SES, Education, and Technology
IV. Race/ethnicity, Education, and Technology
V. (Inter)nationality, Language, Education, and Technology
VI. Universal Design for Learning
VII. Responsive Teaching through Differentiation and
Personalization in Classrooms and Other Learning Contexts |