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Using Technology to Raise Cultural Awareness

Using Technology to Raise Cultural Awareness | Into the Driver's Seat | Scoop.it

I am from the UK, but I live and work in Curitiba in the south of Brazil. I have found that students are often very interested in how things are done in different countries...

 

This means that cultural awareness was a part of my teaching long before the current obsession with doing everything with technology. I am a firm believer in using technolgoy when it offers something different and there is a strong pedagogigcal case for doing so. All too often people use the latest high-tech gizmo just for the sake of using it.

 

However, technology has opened up certain ways of raising cultural awareness that perhaps weren't there before."

 

Using YouTube, Twitter, and WebQuests -JL

 


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Cori Zuppo's comment, December 18, 2011 7:41 PM
I haven't tried it as of yet but I will. Typically I post new tools upon discovery, test them, and remove the ones that are "dogs"...there have been a few...the good news is that this is a free app.
Jan Paron's comment, December 18, 2011 11:50 PM
Thanks! Anxious to try this with my class.
Ken Morrison's comment, December 19, 2011 5:11 AM
Thank You Cori.