Human Diversity In Education: An Analysis

Growing up as a teenager in the technological age, I am exposed to social media left and right. It is impossible for even adults to turn around and not be smacked with some kind of social media. It’s everywhere you go – and what comes with social media is the way to obtain said social media; via the use of any kind of new technology. Can one really go anywhere and not see people holding their phones, whether in use or not? It’s almost guaranteed that that person holding their phone more than likely has a Facebook account, maybe even a Twitter or Tumblr account. I myself have a Facebook account, but that is the only social media that I am on. I didn’t even have my own smartphone until I was eighteen, and my first phone was a hand-me-down from my mother, an LG slider-phone – they don’t even make the model I had anymore. When the phone was handed to me, however, I …show more content…
One of the rapidly changing aspects of the youth in today’s and tomorrow’s society is the outlook on diversity. With more diverse students comes more diverse backgrounds and practices. With the use of social media, it is easier to connect with families in other countries, and can be used as a teaching tool on learning how to respect and educate on foreign societies. In “Human Diversity in Education: An Intercultural Approach”, “There has been a corresponding increase in the outmarriage rate, or intermarriage between individuals from different ethnic or religious groups in recent years, a rate that has nearly doubled from 6.7% in 1980 to 14.6% in 2008 (Cushner, McClelland, Safford 2012, 15). Students are coming from backgrounds that will most likely include another half of family in another country or that has influenced a mixing of traditions and social norms. With the use of social media, students can connect with these other halves of families for presentations and to help educate their fellow students on diversity and other worldly