Using+Technology+to+Affirm+Diversity

Affirming diversity in the classroom is improtant to create a constructive classroom environment. All students come from different backgrounds and it's important to recognize and celebrate these differences. Three ways to affirm diversity in the classroom include: -Celebrate Diversity -Model Diversity -Accept Diversity.

Technology can be used to affirm diversity in many ways. Most importantly however, through the use of technology, educators are able to channel lessons in many ways to reach an optimum number of students. Using different channels to teach lessons is important because not all students are able to learn in the same ways. Technology allows endless possibilites for demonstrating lessons.

Through the use of technology, educators are also able to more effectively celebrate different cultures and backgrounds in the classroom. A great website allowing opportunities to learn from different viewpoints is [|Smithsonian's Living Voices]. This website could be used to teach lessons about Native Americans in America. This is a great website to affirm diversity because it is a potential teaching aid that speaks from the perspective of actual Native Americans telling the stories of their lives. There is no possibility for the viewpoint to become twisted because the stories you hear visiting this website are actually voices of the Native Americans.