A teaching case study is defined as a narrative that describes a specific event within the school environment that allows professionals to investigate critical issues that impact the learning of students. Creating a case study can be seen as a form of professional development, educators learning from real examples.

In today's society, there are many reasons that teachers and students and other educators need to embrace multicultural education. Education shouldn't be complete without it especially since it teaches us valuable life skills it's important for teachers to research cultures extremely thoroughly before teaching their students about them.

When planning for multicultural education in school programs, it is important to allow different conceptions of multicultural education to be expressed in the school decisionmaking process rather than to insist on one definition. Conceptions of multicultural education contain value beliefs and reflect the varying levels of understanding among people involved in the school decisionmaking process.

Francisco Hidalgo TEXAS AEM UNIVERSITY-KINGSVILLE Rudolfo Chávez-Chávez NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY Jean C. Ramage UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. KEARNEY This chapter surveys the intellectual evolution of multicultural education and analyzes it within a naturalistic framework for understanding the cultural differences and the dynamics of culture contact in an increasingly diverse society.

As the population of the United States becomes more diverse and globally more interdependent, it is critical that universities prepare students to become engaged multicultural global citizens and leaders. Whether it's preparing students on essential job skills, the capabilities of citizenship, or the moral imperatives of the 21st century, we all agree on the importance of understanding differences.

This site shows the many benefits of multicultural education and how this is essential for our culture and society. Microcultures are discussed as well as a conceptual framework of a global perspective on multicultural education. One of major themes in this site is the need for curriculum updates to better educate today's and future students. Goals such as increasing awareness, combating prejudices, and instilling core values are elaborated upon in great detail as well.

The Office of Multicultural Affairs is committed to enabling all students, both at CCS and in the greater Detroit community, to be successful in the arts through the promotion of inclusion, diversity, and support. Multicultural Affairs helps to create a culturally rich learning environment where students can excel as active learners and artists.

Building Blocks: The First Steps of Creating a Multicultural Classroom byLarri Fish of Siena College Discovering diversity takes creativity, extra effort, diligence, and courage on the teacher's part. Thus, American public schools have rarely offered an enthusiastic welcome for student difference.

This site informs us about the practices of work and school exchanges and educational diversity programs to learn about creativity in a multicultural environment. The creative cognitive approach is also elaborated upon as well as other strategies to produce or enhance creativity. Scientific evidence and approaches are focused on in this article.

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I am unable to determine how many posts I have made in Diigo, so I apologize in advance for posting a lot of links tonight to ensure that I have the correct amount for my CMC11 course. Thanks and I hope that you are able to benefit from them.

I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in this course and wrote a summary in my latest blog post at http://jonbunch.blogspot.com/2013/04/course-reflection.html

Here is my latest blog post for this week's topic: http://jonbunch.blogspot.com/2013/04/creativity-video-games-and-moocs.html

I finished my tutorial on how to use Padlet, if you haven't used Padlet before to display your artifacts check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqJCRse55_M

Hi everyone, here is the link that is to my latest blog post: http://jonbunch.blogspot.com/2013/04/creativity-and-youth-of-today.html

I would like to share a Padlet wall with the group to show the learning experiences that I have had in the CMC course: http://padlet.com/wall/kzdfv4cdhw . I recommend using this site as a Web 2.0 tool to document your artifacts. Enjoy!

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I came across a great free resource for MOOC; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I was surprised that this school has joined the initiative to spread free online learning to the masses that are interested in furthering their educational experience. MIT has always been known for their ability to teach Information Technology skills to their students for a hefty price and it is great to see that they are expanding their student base to potentially anyone that has an Internet connection. No registration is required and tests, multimedia files, and lecture notes are all free. One of the positives of this is that it provides very in depth technical information for higher level learning, but the down side is that the information may be too complex for the majority that may not have a solid foundation in this field yet.
---Jon Bunch

Resources:
MIT (2013). MIT OpenCourseWare. Referenced on March 7, 2013 from http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm.