Teamwork provides a great opportunity to learn from other team members who are from different cultural backgrounds and learning subjects. With the awareness of our world moving into multicultural society, our group come up with the significance of being educated is to allow for students in diversity and multiculturalism, and to learn to be open minded to new and different social and spiritual needs. What I learned is to create a fair and open learning atmosphere, educators should take leadership in merging international concept into classroom and speaking up for minorities, like Aboriginal people and new immigrants.
Religion is also a topic that needs to be addressed in that many cultures are influenced by one or more religions. One would hope that by talking about other cultures there might be an appreciation of the differences and the historical background for them. This should lead to understanding and acceptance by all cultures of others (assuming the practice is considered ethical). Then there is the extremists…in many religions it seems that people want to have their beliefs as those of the society e.g. ISIS militants. Groups like that do not want to learn about others or accept them. However it would be good to have the majority working toward creating a global society that accepts others for who they are regardless of their customs.
Another issue that draws our attention is if technology always effectively helps learning. E-generation cannot bear life without the internet and online community. Google, as the leading internet searching engine, is making world smaller by building an international online gallery for free, therefore, art lovers have no need to travel long ways to visit museums. Priceless paintings online can also clearly show the painter’s brush strokes after being magnified many times, which provides better opportunities for students to study. However, learning is not only coming from visual, but also from touching, feeling and experience. As educators, we must ensure we expose our students to new technology but to teach in reality as well as the virtual.
We are on the way to foster young generations in a holistic approach of life, socially, emotionally, and intellectually.
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