Digital Literacies and Culture Class Activities for Higher Education by Brittany Jordan

Edutopia

brittanyjordan0309 — 2025-02-18 19:26:45 UTC

Edutopia's section on Culturally Responsive Teaching gives resources and strategies for creating inclusive classrooms. It includes information on different cultures, learning needs, and even resources on helping new students feel comfortable.

Edutopia Lesson Idea

brittanyjordan0309 — 2025-02-18 19:36:30 UTC

Using information from this website, students can create a "cultural identity map" where they create a visual representation of their cultural backgrounds. This activity can foster global and cultural awareness by encouraging students to explore their heritage, traditions, or family values and learn about others. Students can pair up with different students to review their map information to practice speaking and listening skills and to help students learn to respect and understand other students' identities.

Cult of Pedagogy

brittanyjordan0309 — 2025-02-18 19:40:41 UTC

This podcast video gives teachers ways to add more inclusivity to their classrooms. Going over 9 main ways, the podcast tries to focus on real ways to add inclusivity without adding more isolation to students who already feel out of place.

Cult of Pedagogy Lesson Idea

brittanyjordan0309 — 2025-02-18 19:41:37 UTC

While this resource is not something students will watch for a lesson, the ideas inside the resource are important for all teachers to create a truly inclusive classroom environment. Teachers should use the information from the video to understand that trying to be inclusive can inadvertently make students feel more alienated, so teachers need to be genuine and respectful of including resources that show cultural diversity. The video highlights the ideas that teachers need to move away from superficial gestures of cultural inclusion and adopt more meaningful ways to foster a sense of belonging in their classrooms.

NearPod Lesson Idea

brittanyjordan0309 — 2025-02-18 19:48:28 UTC

While teachers can pull pre-made lessons about social injustice from NearPod, they may also want to create something unique for their students to support cultural diversity. Teachers can create a lesson on NearPod where students research historical or contemporary figures in racial justice, racial equity, or an important figure in their culture. In this gallery walk style research, students will be able to interact with quizzes, videos, and other content to learn about their chosen figures. This helps foster cultural inclusivity and civic engagement by helping students analyze issues related to culture, history, and community.

Global Oneness Project

brittanyjordan0309 — 2025-02-18 19:53:53 UTC

Global Oneness Project is a free collection of resources for educators. It houses videos, lesson plans, photography, and essays about global, cultural, societal, and environmental issues.

Global Oneness Project Lesson Idea

brittanyjordan0309 — 2025-02-18 19:58:57 UTC

Many of the lessons at Global Oneness Project are ready for teacher use, but another lesson idea would be to have students watch a short documentary about a social issue or cultural tradition. After the documentary, students can participate in a discussion where they analyze how the documentary can relate to or differ from their own experiences. students can create a reflective journal entry, poem, or picture showing their ideas. This lesson helps foster cultural awareness by exposing students to different cultures, ideas, and traditions and asking them to think critically about how it can impact their lives.

Facing History and Ourselves

brittanyjordan0309 — 2025-02-18 20:07:52 UTC

This website partners with educators to help students understand the civic life around them. This website helps students understand what they see, hear, and read by giving them resources to relevant current events and historical information.

Facing History and Ourselves Lesson Idea

brittanyjordan0309 — 2025-02-18 20:08:15 UTC

Teachers can organize a classroom debate about historical or modern instances of discrimination or resistance. Using resources from Facing History and Ourselves, teachers should give students a few sources to analyze different case studies. Students will then find support for their side of the debate and critically analyze the sources for accuracy and bias. Students can come away from this activity with a clearer view of injustice and how they need to be aware of cultural diversity in their communities.

brittanyjordan0309 — 2025-03-03 19:41:17 UTC

Teachers can use NearPod to create their own online lessons or they can use other teacher created lessons. NearPod has a search feature that can filter by subject and grade, so searching for terms like "racial justice" or racial equity" has several lessons pre-made for teachers to use.