Exactly, world cultures should be important when teaching. Except that I don’t think it means what they think it means. Let’s make sure that when teaching arabic, students learn to use all the cultural and idiomic references to Allah and Mohamed sprinkled throughout the language; or when learning mandarin, make sure we teach them pinyin(romanization of chinese sounds rather than characters), which is how Chinese are learning their own language. Let’s also teach the cultural deference to never say ANYTHING bad about the communist government, or else you disappear for a while. My favorite though is spanish world culture –… Read more »
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Exactly, world cultures should be important when teaching. Except that I don’t think it means what they think it means. Let’s make sure that when teaching arabic, students learn to use all the cultural and idiomic references to Allah and Mohamed sprinkled throughout the language; or when learning mandarin, make sure we teach them pinyin(romanization of chinese sounds rather than characters), which is how Chinese are learning their own language. Let’s also teach the cultural deference to never say ANYTHING bad about the communist government, or else you disappear for a while. My favorite though is spanish world culture –… Read more »