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"Digital access and digital equity continue to present a challenge to educators. Meeting that challenge is more important than ever, because, as many stakeholders say, digital equity is about more than access to devices and strong internet connections–it’s about social justice and fair opportunity." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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@TJMShow Prolific African American artist Faith Ringgold joins me to discuss racial disparities in pain treatment http://t.co/WUpoZuzM1l
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The future of education and international development: Egon Zehnder brought together Save the Children Chief Executive Jasmine Whitbread and educational scientist Sugata Mitra to talk about the need to develop a new paradigm for global development – one that puts a premium on sharing knowledge, building partnerships, and collaboration across sectors. Via Nik Peachey
Dennis Swender's insight:
The last two chapters of Banks brings additional insight to global identity awareness.
Training in Business's curator insight,
November 14, 2014 10:58 AM
Social responsibility, global development, and the future of learning
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by Michael Gonchar
"To help jump-start your brainstorming, we have gathered a list of 200 writing prompts from our daily Student Opinion feature that invite you to take a stand. Via Jim Lerman
Dennis Swender's insight:
Chapbook Essays galore -- with applicable background info
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RACINE — Luz Celedon embraces the premise that for a student to succeed in life, learning has to take place inside and outside the walls of a school.
Dennis Swender's insight:
An applicable reference for Discussion Board 4.2
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"Americans' understanding of who counts as 'white' has changed dramatically throughout the country's history and even over the last century alone. This map — which covers a decade of immigration to the US, from 1892 to 1903 — is a dramatic illustration of what it looked like when 'white' wasn't the same thing as European. Mouse over any part of the map to magnify it."
Tags: race, historical, USA, map.
Caterin Victor's curator insight,
November 10, 2014 8:43 AM
Up to me, race and colour don`t matter. Most important is the personality. America have now a black President. Is it better??
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Is the American obsession with individual freedom really such a great idea? What other cultures know about how to make good choices.
Dennis Swender's insight:
Decision tilmes, more or less
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A news service on social justice, human rights, environmental justice, and progressive activism.
Dennis Swender's insight:
One of Dr. Paul Gorski's multicultural websites that provide significant documentation on multicultural issues
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Carol Ann Tomlinson, author of “The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners,” is the country’s preeminent scholar on differentiated instruction. Tomlinson defines differentiated learning as “ensuring that what a student learns, how he/she learns it, and how the student demonstrates what he/she has learned is a match for that student’s readiness level, interests, and preferred mode of learning.” She likens the reluctance to integrate modern knowledge of the learning process into the classroom to settling for a Model T instead of embracing 21st-century engineering. Via Nik Peachey
Dennis Swender's insight:
Tomlinson is one of the contributors to ED 262 content
nicolaperry's curator insight,
November 7, 2014 3:06 AM
This is a look at what differentiated learning is really all about. Quite a challenge! 
Audrey's curator insight,
November 12, 2014 3:20 PM
Differentiation works when students take responsibility for their own learning. Students in particular those doing A levels are given booklets, notes, presentations and textbooks with lesson plans and schemes of work. When a teacher walks into the classroom students should not be sitting waiting for the teacher to tell them what to do. They should already be engaged in looking over their own notes and ready to ask the teacher questions about aspects of the course that they are not certain of. Or ready to ask where they can get more information.
Most students have I-pads, mobile phones that can access the whole web. They can look for information on youtube for most subjects which can add to their learning. Differentiation has never been easier. The teacher's job is to give out the resources, point students to where to find information, give overviews of the lessons based on the syllabus, which he students also have. During class, time should be spent understanding the information, discussions, showing how to answer exam questions, followed by essays. This is 21st Century learning and it works!
Have a look at http://www.hotmoodle.com a website for psychology .
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5 Best Prezi alternatives list from PowToon - the free animated presentation software for business. The best alternative to Powerpoint and Prezi alternative. Via Baiba Svenca
Dennis Swender's insight:
A Cultural Clip suggestion
Willem Kuypers's curator insight,
August 16, 2015 3:36 PM
Prezi est déjà tendance, voici quelques concurrents.
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The Turlock Unified School District Professional Development Center was teeming on Tuesday with families and friends of students from TUSD high schools who lined up to receive their Stanislaus County Office of Education’s Seal of Multilingual...
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The old nomenclature of LEP (Limited English Proficiency) to refer to students who speak more than one language and are learning English may be a misnomer. A more accurate description might be Bilingually Gifted or Bilingually Enriched (BE). "Limited English" may more accurately describe individuals who are proficient in only one language -- English.
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These 22 charts and maps all told me something I found surprising. Some of them genuinely changed the way I think about the world.
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In recent weeks we have been reminded that our university campuses, like everywhere else, are not racism-free spaces. Via Jocelyn Stoller
Dennis Swender's insight:
Inaction -- an action sometimes overlooked
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The high success rate enjoyed by GCSE students in London is explained by the higher proportion of ethnic minority pupils in the capital, research finds.
Dennis Swender's insight:
A case for diversity
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For great educators, teaching is a calling more than an occupation. That’s why educators spend so much of their time not only teaching in and beyond the classroom, but also constantly learning themselves, exploring every avenue that can make them more effective (like using Twitter for professional development).
Heather Spiva's curator insight,
February 8, 2016 3:42 PM
Of course, this is great. I have two blogs and both are advantageous to learning -- for me and hopefully one day for my students.
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"This program, Boundaries and Borderlands, introduces the case study approach of the course. Here we examine the borderland region between the regions of North America and Latin America. The first case study, Twin Cities, Divided Lives, follows the story of Concha Martinez as she crosses between the U.S. and Mexico in order to make a life for herself and her children. The second case study, Operation Hold the Line, follows up the question of cross-border migration raised in the first program. It takes a look at how U.S. border policy is shaping the lives of not only the people living in this borderland region, but in more distant U.S. and Mexican locations as well."
Dennis Swender's insight:
Open borders: An American Exceptionalism asset worth preserving?
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Extensive search results for many issues and topics related to education courses in general and multicultural education in particular.
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Dennis Swender's insight:
Placing limits on search results
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People love to complain about how horrible...
Dennis Swender's insight:
Further affirmation of Steven Pinker's insights concerning the world becoming more humane (Ref 1).
And, as Tom Are, senior pastor at Village Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village, KS, acknowledges, "We do not remember the past so that we can relive it again. We are not trying to be who we were. We remem-ber so that we have confidencein moving into a future that is always less clear, less certain— but we hold a confidence nevertheless that the one who began a good work will bring into completion (Ref 2)."
Ref 1: http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/2007_03_19_New%20Republic.pdf Ref 2: http://www.villagepres.org/useruploads/files/11-09-14_sermon_%20are.pdf
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Channon Hodges, a video journalist, describes the background of “Off Color,” a video series on comedians taking on race.
Dennis Swender's insight:
Emotions and humor usually trump cognitive perusals.
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A state-by-state look at our cultural politics.
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If you're feeling particularly nationalistic, or just want to see how consistently you speak like your friends and neighbors, here are all the dialect quizzes that I could find. Find out what your dialect most resembles, and, in many cases, help science at the same time!
Tags: language, culture, English.
Julia Kang's curator insight,
November 6, 2014 8:42 PM
Enligsh dialects looks interesting! If I have a chance later, I want to know more about it :) 
Courtney Barrowman's curator insight,
November 12, 2014 11:07 AM
Take a few of these quizzes and be ready to share your reaction to your results!
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Dennis Swender's insight:
A traditional approach of multicultural education may provide some interesting sociopolitical insights.
Jacob Crowell's curator insight,
December 17, 2014 10:45 PM
We talk about McDonalds as a way of Americanizing the rest of the world. These foods show that it may still be the case but local culture is still infused and desired where McDonalds expands to. 
Payton Sidney Dinwiddie 's curator insight,
January 21, 2015 9:40 PM
This shows that mmcdonals is a global industy . there are many mcdonalds everywhere they put a spin oncertain diishes to match their heritage like in japan instead of hamburger meat like we americans use the use crabs.It just really shows how far mcdonalds was changed from just starting in america to being featured all over the globe 
Kristin Mandsager San Bento's curator insight,
January 22, 2015 7:06 PM
I've lived and traveled to a few places especially Asia. I've had the Ramen at McD's in Hawaii along with the Portugeuse sausage that comes with the big breakfast. I've also experienced Japanese McD's. It was nice to be able to find some of the regular food like a burger and fry at any McD's in the world, but I never ordered anything else.
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Read and download this self-assessment rubric and accompanying questions to help you assess your own or your students' social and emotional development this year.
Dennis Swender's insight:
Note the relationship of the 3rd paragraph with 1) Banks' "empowering school culture and social structure" and with the Implicit Association Tests.
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