Comment: How are these differences important to your work as a teacher, or your life as a learner?

For me as a teacher and even as a learner, differences are important sources of creativity and creative ideas. You get different views that would not be feasible without meeting such differences.

DSD(Do Something Different, University of Minnesota) is one of the best ways to get creative. https://www.coursera.org/lecture/creative-problem-solving/dsd-general-introduction-CgdfQ 

Make an Update: Take one of these differences, define, describe the implications for learning, and give an example of how a pedagogical environment (a traditional institution, a learning technology, a new media resource) succeeds or fails to address this difference.

Before the covid pandemics, I was travelling a lot between Sweden and Japan, taking part in meetings in both countries. There are significant differences of gender and races of such meetings. In Japan, not so many women as in Sweden, very few immigrants compared to Sweden.

Differences create different views. In Japan less differences meant less differences of views and more conformity. There are surely different views and opinions even among Japanese. However, the problems I experience are that many Japanese feel less encouraged to express different opinions in such homogeneous environments.

There are much Japan should and could do to get more inclusive and diversified. It is the case even for universities and schools in Japan that need input for more diversified environments.

Thanks to the new technology and new media, it is now so easy to make such pedagogical environments with differences.

I have been trying to connect schools in Japan with schools in Scandinavia to create such environments. Below is one such workshop between schools in Finland and Japan.

https://www.facebook.com/kawasakikazuhiko/posts/3733174746758809