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Publication Date: 1999-Mar
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Beyond the Learning Tool Paradigm: The Computer as a Medium in a Technology Enhanced Multicultural Education Course.
de Garcia, Barbara Gerner; McGlynn, Deirdre
This paper describes the use of technology by students and their instructor in a course on multicultural education at Gallaudet University (District of Columbia). In the course, Multicultural Foundations of Education, each technology-based course component is designed to satisfy a specific constructivist learning objective. Students engage in online discussions to enhance and reinforce multicultural content learning, explore and develop Internet resources that address a wide spectrum of cultures, and become contributors to a knowledge base accessible worldwide. The instructor uses online libraries for class readings, as well as for resources for students and resources related to multicultural education. The use of technology in a multicultural education course allows students to enact a way of being engaged in the world that is essentially multicultural in spirit. When used consciously to create a more student-centered classroom, it allows the instructor and students to engage in a constructivist approach to teaching and learning. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Resources, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Sources, Instructional Design, Learner Controlled Instruction, Multicultural Education, Resource Materials, Technology Integration, World Wide Web
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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