The Multiculturality of the World Wide Web:
Interactive Teaching and Learning

Interactive teaching and learning is not about interacting with software. It is about interacting with OTHER PEOPLE. The Web can transcend other educational media in interactive potential because it can actually facilitate interaction among people across borders and boundaries. This should not replace interaction within the classroom, but it can expand interactive opportunities by connecting you or your students with people to whom you may previously have had no access.

There are several "types" of interactive opportunities on the Web that can contribute to your multicultural curriculum transformation:

Interaction with First Person Sources

Eyewitness: A North Korean Remembers
Sidney Finkel's Page
Florida Seminole Indians Page

Interaction with "Experts"

Ask the Experts
Chabad-Lubavitch in Cyberspace

Interaction with Peers

Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections
International Kids' Space
Youth! Be Yourself

NOTE: Interactive opportunities for educators will be explored in the next section.