{"id":18007,"date":"2015-04-29T13:13:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T13:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lern.org\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:23:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:23:14","slug":"myth-2-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/myth-2-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth #2: Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/diversity-e1430313180742.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2767\" src=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/diversity-e1430313180742-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"diversity\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a>There are six big myths in learning and education today, says Julie Coates, LERN\u2019s Senior Vice President for Information Services and Research.\u00a0 Coates is one of the leading researchers in education in the United States.<br \/>\nMyth #2 is that we understand diversity, she told audiences in Savannah and Tucson this spring. There is visible diversity, she noted, and most educators understand the concept of visible diversity.<br \/>\nBut there is also invisible diversity, Coates stated, and we don\u2019t understand invisible diversity at all, she stated.<br \/>\nInvisible diversity is about neurological differences, especially those that impact a person\u2019s learning.<br \/>\n<strong>Two Examples of Invisible Diversity<\/strong><br \/>\nTwo examples of invisible diversity are those learners on the autism spectrum, and those learners impacted by anxiety and stress.<br \/>\n\u201cStudents carry a heavy burden when they come into your classroom,\u201d\u00a0 she says, noting that a recent survey found that more than half of students say they have \u201coverwhelming anxiety,\u201d some 32 percent are too depressed to function at times, and 10 percent are frequently depressed.\u00a0 \u201cStress and depression produce chemicals that impede recall, memory and learning,\u201d says Coates.<br \/>\nLearners on the autism spectrum now number 1 in 68 people, up from 1 in 88 just a few years ago. The Center for Disease Control says the number is growing.\u00a0 And that a growing percentage of learners on the autism spectrum are high functioning, going to college, and then participating in lifelong learning.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are not prepared,\u201d says Coates.\u00a0 \u201cThe kind of diversity we can\u2019t see doesn\u2019t always count in the classroom,\u201d she notes, \u201cand it should count.\u201d<br \/>\nCoates also understands visible diversity, being a civil rights leader and speaking recently about how racism today is different from the days of integration\u00a0but still prevalent.<br \/>\n<em>Photo of Savannah, site of the LERN Institutes this spring, by LERN staffer Layne Harpine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are six big myths in learning and education today, says Julie Coates, LERN\u2019s Senior Vice President for Information Services and Research.\u00a0 Coates is one of the leading researchers in education in the United States. Myth #2 is that we understand diversity, she told audiences in Savannah and Tucson this spring. There is visible diversity,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19031,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18007\/revisions\/19031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}