Blog #4 – PLN & Inclusion

• How diverse is your PLN?

I would like to think I have a diverse and inclusive personal learning network but I also believe that there is always room for improvement and growth. I thoroughly use my international background as a third culture kid to the best of my ability and continue the connections I’ve made in my childhood. Recently, during my co-op with Working for a Better World, I completed a diversity and inclusion course to receive a workplace certification.

Are you learning from a variety of diverse voices and are you expanding your understanding of the views of others?

I often push myself to engage in learning from a variety of diverse voices. In academic discussions, I seek sources from multiple perspectives and sides to understand the topic deeper. It is important to comprehend every angle on an issue in order to have an educated understanding and are able to participate in academic dialogue entirely. Shelley Moore highlights 6 strategies to expand your inclusivity; “The Place Alignment Planner, The Inclusive Purpose Planner, The Replacement Curriculum IEP Planner, The Class Profile, The IEP Evidence Log and The Planning Pyramid 1- Goal Continuums.” I intend to apply these strategies to my own learning, “treat it like your teaching is always developing” (Moore) and challenge my inclusivity. 

What is a learning outcome of your PLN and how are you ensuring your exposure to diversity and inclusion?

Shelley Moore emphasizes that “there is no one way of being inclusive” when learning or growing your personal learning network. Social media has become an excellent source of finding diverse voices. Moore shares on her ‘5 Moore Minutes’ podcast that her experience on social media has allowed her to reach an entirely new level of community. She shares “realizing that I had community, and then slowly realizing that my 20K followers were my colleagues and learners that I didn’t know was possible online” (Moore)I strive to remember that inclusion “means everyone” and is not about “integration, a time and place or a destination, but an attitude.

References:

Miller, J., & Moore, S. (2021). EDCI 338 – 20 Minutes Moore. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeSV0rUl1bA&ab_channel=MILLER

Moore, Shelley. One Without the Other : Stories of Unity Through Diversity and Inclusion, Portage & Main Press, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uvic/detail.action?docID=4832579.
Created from uvic on 2022-10-03 18:42:01.