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EDU 649 Final Project: Understanding Other Cultures

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In this assignment students will explore other cultures and contrast them against their own cultures. Students will first examine what defines a  culture and ask questions about what kinds of things would be interesting to learn about another culture. They will have the opportunity to meet new students their age from two other countries by using video over internet technology in the form of Skype. They will be given the opportunity to ask questions of students and answer the questions the other students have of them. Finally students will debate and have a dialog about how the diversity of cultures might contribute to our own lives and societies.

                                    Phase I:

�                 Instructional Strategy: Day 1-2

o  You will be partnered with other students to have 2 teams

o  Each team will be given the first day to conduct research and decide which culture/country you want to conduct your projects on and create 10 questions that you would like to research answers for (countries will need to be those that have Skype accessibility-which you can confirm with me)

o  You will look over the Skype tab and decide on the role you want to have during the Skyping sessions

o  You will share your questions with the other team and receive feedback on if any changes need to be made

o  You will return to your original teams and finalize the specific 10 questions and conduct research on finding the answer so  You will create a list of your initial assumptions, ideas, and opinions about the specific culture and update that information in the classroom blog

Phase II

Instructional Strategy: Day 3-4

o You will finalize which role you will take during the Skype session and conduct any preparation needed on Day 3(setting up, refreshing understanding of programs, making sure all required material is present (exp. Stopwatch for the time keeper)

o You will take your places on Day 4first group in the morning and second group in the afternoon for the hour-long Skype session with the two different countries

                                            o You will videotape, enter data, take still pictures, update classroom blog, and share with the �visiting
                                      culture/country
 

                                          Phase III: 

�                                           Instructional Strategy: Day 5-6

o You (the two teams) will have two days to create a presentation that will include the data from the Skype sessions,  your own research, and your results from the before and after opinions that you updated in the classroom blog. It will be a website that will include video clip(s), charts showing how much more you now understand of the culture/country that you learned about, individual journal entries of your personal experience during the assignment and a collage of images that �tells the story� of your experience.

o You can use a variety of resources to complete this project from Microsoft Office Tools, Photoshop, internet research, as well as video camera, camera, etc.

o I will conduct a what-if of the experience, the understanding of the cultures to create a debate between the two teams on the different ways of life

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  • Hector Ruiz on Connecting the World
    Description: Hector Ruiz executive chair of AMD has two passions; children and education and has a goal of providing internet to 50 percent of the world by 2015

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  • Where Children Sleep Around The World
    Description: Where Children Sleep Around The World English-born photographer James Mollison uses photography to show us a glimpse of children�s bedrooms around the world, allowing us to have a greater appreciation for different ways of life.

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