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Preparing Students for a Multicultural, Digitally Connected World
Session Overview
This video was part of the June 2022 REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit
A century ago, higher education catered to a predominantly white, well-to-do student body. Speech and communications classes helped students shed accents and acquire facility in then-dominant forms of expression. Learn how two institutions have radically shifted the purposes of speech and communications classes, teaming with researchers to apply culturally sustaining pedagogies as part of redesigning their classes to serve today’s diverse student bodies living in a world of digital media and instant communication.
Speakers
Naseer Alomari, PhD
Assistant Professor of Speech
| BMCC-CUNY
Naseer Alomari, Ph.D., has held teaching and leadership positions in both K-12 and higher education. He has extensive experience teaching in the New York City area, providing English, Language Arts, as well as literature at the elementary, middle, and high school levels to speakers of other languages. He has also taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the US and overseas. His courses have included language and literacy development, curriculum and instruction, second language acquisition, bilingual education, linguistics, syntax, semantics, composition, speech and communication, academic research, as well as critical reading.
Brian Tinsley
Senior Research and Communications Associate
| Digital Promise
Brian Tinsley, Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist committed to the pursuit of educational equity across the life course. He has a particular interest in the influences of social and educational contexts on the socioeconomic well-being of marginalized populations.
