Culturally Responsive Instruction through Technology
Culturally responsive instruction recognizes the importance of including students鈥� cultural and linguistic references in all aspects of learning.
听Educational technology can enhance instructional design and practice to facilitate a culturally- and linguistically- responsive learning environment that meets the needs of all students. Educational technology can assist teachers in
- Personalizing learning to meet the needs of individual students.
- Strengthening听relationships and connections with families.
- Developing and organizing coherent and relevant units, lessons, and听learning tasks that build upon students鈥� cultural backgrounds and experiences
- Facilitating听classroom projects听that involve community-based topics and/or community members.
- Increasing and improving instructional strategies to accommodate diverse learning styles and languages.
- Enabling students to听communicate and collaborate听with diverse audiences, including peers and experts in the community, state, country, and internationally.
- Facilitating collaborative classroom projects听among heterogeneous student groups.

