Lecture Experiential Learning
Lecture Experiential Learning
Diversity of Learners:
Diverse Learners include children and students of all abilities from racially,
ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Key Questions: Cite specific examples for your answers
A. Why is it important to know the diversity of learners?
B. In what ways are students different from each other?
C. In what ways can these students’ differences be addressed in the classroom
across the curriculum?
Why is diversity of learners important?
When working and learning with people from a variety of backgrounds and
cultures present in the classroom, students gain a more comprehensive
understanding of the subject matter. It also teaches students how to use their own
strengths and points of view to contribute in a diversed working environment.
EXAMPLES:
MEDIA – Television, radio, broadcasting, newspaper/social media)
COMMUNICATION - Message, Statement, Announcement, Letters, Ant kind of information
What do you study in media and communications ?
Other topics you may encounter within media and communication studies
include: advertising, audience behavior, celebrity culture, comedy, gaming and virtual
environments, inter-cultural communication, marketing, media law, media research,
post-modern culture, theatre (acting, stage plays, drama), visual culture, web design,
and youth culture.
What are the ROLES of media and communication?
Consequently, media is a modern form of communication aiming at spreading
knowledge within the whole world, regardless of any form of discrimination.
Through media and communications psychology has helped to connect diversed people
from far and near a geographical structural/location.
Definition of audience
A group of listeners or spectators. The concert attracted a large audience: a
reading, viewing, or listening public. The film is intended for a young audience, a group
of ardent admirers or devotees that have developed an enthusiastic audience for his
ideas.
Regardless of the sector you work for, or the part of the world you are based in,
your audience is expectedly in diversity. Why/How? It's made up of different ages,
backgrounds, religions, sexual orientations and identities, disabilities, long-term
health conditions and education-levels.
Why is it important to consider audience diversity?
Part of communicating more effectively with a diverse audience is beginning to
understand our own biases and how our experiences and values shape the lens
(view through the eye) through which we view our world. We cannot assume that
others share our views of the world.
Important:
There are so many and varied articles and writing about all these topics, please I
advise you to make further readings….Read, read and read!