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Online Course on Children’s Literature Focused on Latin American/Latino Cultural Heritage: Student Experience and Implications for Practice
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EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Vancouver, Canada ISBN 978-1-880094-62-4 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC

Abstract

Given that Latinas/os make up the fastest-growing population group in the U.S., according to the 2000 U.S. Census, classroom teachers increasingly are in need of meaningful resources and learning strategies for students of Latin American heritage. These same resources can also serve to help internationalize/diversify classrooms serving non-Latino student populations. An online course focused on children's books was offered with the purpose of helping students develop or raise awareness of the Latin American/Latino cultural heritage through meaningful resources and learning strategies. These learning strategies, which drew upon guest speakers, conceptual readings, and children and young adult books, included: audioconferencing presentations, online group discussions, a team project, and a synthesis paper. This paper presents the results of the students' experiences in this pilot course and implications for practice.

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Conceicao, S., Antro-Gonzalez, R. & Kline, J. (2007). Online Course on Children’s Literature Focused on Latin American/Latino Cultural Heritage: Student Experience and Implications for Practice. In C. Montgomerie & J. Seale (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2007--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 2177-2184). Vancouver, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 28, 2024 from .

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