Affirming+Diversity


 * __How can technology be used to affirm diversity?__**

Technology can be used to support diversity in the classroom in several different ways. The first way technology can use to support diversity is that it allows teachers to teach lessons in varying ways. They can teach the lesson from different cultural viewpoints, or even gender viewpoints. A second way is that technology celebrates different cultures, traditions and backgrounds. Classrooms can be diverse in the fact that every students family history and cultural backgrounds are represented. A third reason is that technology provides role models from diverse backgrounds. It can represent groups of people that are otherwise unrepresented, like females in the field of science.

A great example of technology that is currently being used PBS kids Not For Ourselves. This website shows an average day from different cultural viewpoints (African-American boy during the civil war, native american boy, an upper class girl, along with others). It also posts the views from children that vary in age and gender.

Link to Not For Ourselves: @http://pbskids.org/stantonanthony/day_in_life.html