Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Technology and Diversity in the Media Center
Where I am volunteering, the school is very much diverse, and everyone has access to technology resources. All grade levels, cultural backgrounds, regular education, special needs, and ethnicity groups make use of the media center daily. The media specialists introduces many programs to the students and staff, such as ebooks, Windows Movie Maker, Destiny, Net Tracker, etc. The entire faculty and students takes advantage of the technology programs offered when working on projects or reports or research assignments. All programs are beneficial and are catered to all cultural backgrounds. In Destiny, there are materials for Spanish speaking students on videos, DVD's, and online resources. No one is deprived from anything. It is the media specialist responsibility to serve everybody's needs. There are picture books provide for resource and special needs children. These books are accessible to the disable. The entire collection and online resources in the media center is diverse and it meets the needs of the entire school. This makes everyone happy and; therefore, they continue to visit the media center.
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Our population is not really all that diverse although we do have a rising Hispanic population. Just as the school that you mentioned, my school also has access to many of the resources that you mentioned. As of now, those resources are introduced to staff by someone at our technology department or our technology guru at our school. It is then introduced to students by the teachers. As a new media specialist, I am trying to becoome more aware of the needs of the entire school and its grade levels. I focused on first graders for 11+ years so it has been a little different addressing the needs of grades 2-6.
I did not know that destiny had materials for spanish speaking students. I agree with you that it is the media specialist responsiblity to make sure that all populations within the school are served. I also like the idea of picture books for students with special needs.
Alecia
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