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Teachers are responsible for making students aware of global challenges and also teaching them about cultural diversity. It is very important that students learn to understand, respect, and even collaborate with culturally diverse global populations in efforts to find solutions to these challenges. For example, the article talks about a technology, engineering, and math high school in Columbus, Ohio, that is using digital technologies such as podcasting to engage students in learning about other cultures. Podcasting not only allows students the opportunity to interact with digital technologies. Having a real audience through the Internet motivates students and encourages them to appreciate culturally diverse perspectives. This technology involves a lot of planning, researching, and writing even before students use the podcasting software. This creates an ongoing projec tin the classroom, everyone can be involved with. In Ohio, students worked together to come up with questions and predicted responses from the "invited" panelists. The actors drew on their research to develop a response in line with the views of their assigned personalities. In doing so, students were put in a position to discuss multiple views on an important global issue.
How would I intergrate podcasts into the classroom? This idea of using podcasts to connect with other countires outside the USA is a great tool to learn about Cultural Diversity. Through the internet, a community of school to connect and as a "penpal" project have disscussions with other classrooms across the globe.
Which grade level would be best suited for this kind of activity? I feel that to get the most out of the Podcasts, and lesson learned, middle schoolers would receive the most out of this activity. Their ability to research, learn the software, and understand culture diversity is great at this age.
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