I love this quotation, which I found on the sidebar of Mike Temple’s blog:
You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. – Doug Floyd
Amen. Let’s celebrate diverse voices and perspectives. It’s quite boring to live in an echo chamber or another environment where everyone is expected to look the same, act the same, be the same…..
Biodiversity and human diversity are causes to celebrate and explore, not oppose and extinguish!
Appropriately differentiating learning opportunities for diverse learners is perhaps the most challenging as well as most important role of the classroom teacher.
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- iPad Video App Smash: Auphonic, Voice Record Pro and Green Screen – 2016
- Presentations on Creativity, 3D Printing, Digital Sharing and More – 2016
- Audio Podcasting with iOS and YouTube – 2015
- Sleet Sledding: The Movie (fun with iMovie for iPhone Trailers) – 2013
- Narrate a SlideShow with ShowMe – 2012
- Create a Narrated Slideshow with ShowMe for iPad – 2012
- Marzano Causal Teacher Evaluation Model by Robert La Grassa – 2012
- Lessons Learned from Finger Puppet Theater on Vimeo – 2011
- 5th Grade Colonial Living History Museum – 2011
Comments
5 responses to “Celebrate diversity!”
Hi Wesley. I came across this post thanks to a link from Stephen Downes’s OLDaily. I really like the graphic!
However, something is tickling at the back of my mind: I know your name. Well, more accurately, I know the name Wes Fryer. Where from? I’m sure there are others in the world with the same name, but it’s not a common enough combination to be dismissed as pure co-incidence. Are you maybe a songwriter/lyricist in your spare time? Because I have a feeling it has some connection with music…
Karyn, I wish I could say I am a songwriter and lyricist, but the limit of my musical abilities to date has been singing in some choirs, taking a few piano lessons when I was in college, and making a few loop-based songs in Garageband. I would love to further develop my interest in instrumental music, and have considered taking piano again with my 9 year old in a group class this year, but that’s about all I have to report on the musical/songwriting front for now! Sorry!
Hello,
A local man starts visiting a Thai temple in the UK to listen to the monks chanting. One day he expresses appreciation, saying the sound is more harmonious than before. A monk expresses surprise and replies that it is only because one of the chanters has a cold – the chanting should be in one voice!
I think diversity requires discernment.
– Paul
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