1. Technology in
Multicultural
Educatoion
Education Technology
ED 480
BY: Berry Fredrick

2. What is multicultural education?
 the application of scientific knowledge for
practical purposes which gives a systematic
instruction with in ethnic groups in a societies.
In today’s classrooms we have multiple groups
students from different ethnicity, backgrounds,
race colors and social economic situations.
 The connection between technology and
multicultural education is that society is
becoming more diverse and so as technology.
http://www.multicultural/technology.com

3. Multicultural education
continued.
 Require different approaches to instruction than
others; learning experiences of the students in
your classroom will be influenced by their culture,
their language, and their prior experiences.

4. 5 critical dimensions of
multicultural education: by
James A. Bank
 Content integration
 Knowledge construction
 Equity pedagogy
 Prejudice reduction
 Empowering school culture and social structures.

5. Technology, teaching, and
content integration.
 content integration- integrating all contents in today’s
curriculums.
 knowledge construction
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 Equity pedagogy that teachers change their methods to
enable kids from diverse racial groups and both genders
to achieve. To be realistic, equity pedagogy is simply
teaching through multiple intelligences so that learners
learns it well and structure. So simply using strategies to
teach through the needs of the students.
 Prejudice reduction –Because all teachers—whether you
teach math or physics or social studies— should work to
reduce prejudice in the classroom
 Empowering school culture and social structures.-

6. Technology as a tool in teaching
multicultural education
 Students are surrounded by various forms of
media, and telecommunications
 Enable students from across the world to interact
through text speech and video
 Engages students around cultural artifacts that has
basic bridge to access to language, literacy, math
science and art.

7. How do you or how have you in the past
incorporated multicultural education in your
classroom .
 Incorporating multicultural in the classroom would
have been require a lot of skills for the teacher to
know. This is where technology comes in.
 Using technology in the classroom makes the
life of the teacher much easier.
 technology helps lessens the stress and hard work
that the teacher has to do.

8. Technology & Multicultural
Education : by Chisom 1998
 Cultural awareness.
 Cultural relevance
 Cultural supportive
 Equitable access
 Instructional flexibility
www.technology&multicultural education.

9. Multicultural through prejudice
reduction: by Neito 2008
 How does multicultural education seek to challenge and reform the
inequalities that exist in our society?
 this initiative will focus on concepts of multicultural education as antiracist
education, multicultural education as important for all students, and
multicultural education as education for social justice. To begin, multicultural
education as antiracist allows individuals, students, and teachers to critically
analyze societal topics in a historical and contemporary
 http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/initial.html

10. Several ways technology
assists education in
multicultural education
 Web based instruction
 Online education
 Computer mediated communication
 Web quest
 Educational games & simulations
 Video streaming

11. Technology as a tool to reduce
prejudice
 Technology is being used to promote positive self
concept and foster positive relationship between
students from diverse backgrounds in
geographically divers areas.

12. Technology & empowering the
school cultures
 High quality experiences for all students, many
traditional aspects of school will need to be
reconfigured
 By having technology in the school, students that
have not been exposed to technology out of the
classroom will have the chance to learn.

13. Conclusion
 Having technology in the classroom can bring
together a diverse group of students
 Can help students who have never use technology
 Help teacher teach different content areas in the
classroom
 And much more!!!!!

14. Resources
 http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/initial.hmtl
 http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/
 http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3935/i
s_2002
 http://www.technology/multicultural/education.co
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