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 * Technology in many ways can be used for more than just simple functions and tasks. In recent years technology has been used in order for people to see many new things that they wouldnt be able to see if it wasnt on the internet. Examples of this could be a tour of sharks in the ocean or even a tour of how things work inside the human body.
 * On the website "EnterZon" there is a game in which one can learn how to speak mandarin chinese. Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language throughout the world and speaking a different language other than one's native language could be considered a Higher Order Thinking. Either way the website "EnterZon" always people to support their higher order thinkings by learning a new langauge. The game will walk one through all of the steps that are required to get a feeling of what chinese culture is like as well as actually speaking the language.
 * In some way or another it is usually quite dificult to get a sense of what culture is like outside of ones native land. In my case the United States of America. Countries like Europe and Russia which are across the ocean are very far away from Michigan so it is not very easy to view the different cultures of these countries. Technology on the other hand is available to provide pictures and videos etc. in order for someone like myself to view the cultural differences of my hometown and the countries depicted in the pictures.
 * The Afghanistan Guide website on National Geographic provides facts, pictures, and maps of the country in order for one to perceive how life is like living in Afghanistan. Technology is playing its part in providing a source of information about a place that is hard to access without the help of the internet. Technology is affirming diveristy in this website just by having the information available. It is allowing a person like me to put aside my ethnocentrism and view the world in someone elses viewpoint.
 * Technology is a very useful tool when dealing with kids who have special needs in order to learn. Technology can be used to reproduce the voice and the opportunity to talk for someone who has not properly learned how to speak. Technology could also be used in order to allow a student with bad hearing a chance to hear much better and with less troubles. For example a hearing aide could be given to a kid with bad hearing that way he would be able to hear everything much more clear.
 * An example of technology being used for a special learner would be the girl that never properly developed the skills to speak. Because of this she did not have the ability to participate in classroom activities because she didnt have a voice to communicate. In order to combat her inabliltiy to speak technology was used to create a tool that had a voice programed into it. She was able to use it in order to pick words or phrases that she wanted to say.