UCLA Unveils Free Online Multimedia High School Textbook About Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders

The UCLA Asian American Research Heart immediately unveiled a really spectacular on-line textbook for highschool lessons on Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders.

It’s titled Foundations and Futures.

Right here is an excerpt from its description:

Foundations and Futures: Asian American and Pacific Islander Multimedia Textbook celebrates the hidden histories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to supply a fuller understanding of the American expertise and the up to date world. The scapegoating of Asian Americans in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic was a reminder that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders stay little understood regardless of centuries of historical past as a part of the US and touched by its reaches throughout the Pacific.

This textbook democratizes over fifty years of scholarship that flourished because the emergence of Ethnic Research within the Nineteen Sixties. Along with over 200 of the nation’s high students, topic consultants, and curriculum builders, the textbook options dozens of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities throughout the US, its territories, and the Pacific. It accommodates lots of of pictures, movies, poems, archival paperwork, and interviews, with ready-to-use lesson plans for highschool and faculty college students and most people.

Foundations and Futures options standards-aligned highschool lesson plans obtainable to obtain without spending a dime, offering lecturers with the instruments and assets to implement textbook chapters straight into their classroom.

Foundations and Futures makes use of open entry know-how to create a multisensory studying expertise. The textbook options a wide range of instruments to create an enticing reader expertise, improve pupil comprehension, and develop digital literacy expertise. It’s obtainable on any machine linked to the web (computer systems, tablets, telephones). Digital studying instruments embody an embedded glossary, hyperlinked sections that allow straightforward navigation, data pop ups, and a big assortment of interactive audio and video media parts.

Foundations and Futures web site additionally hosts a group of accessibility options together with studying rulers, coloration filters, studying masks, customizable textual content measurement, spacing, and font choices. The web site expertise was constructed to be accessible by way of keyboard navigation, suitable with display screen reader applied sciences, and options alt-text for each multimedia asset. Google Translate is embedded for fast translation. All written content material is downloadable and WCAG (Web site Content material Accessibility Information) compliant.

You possibly can learn extra about it at this Related Press article, UCLA on-line textbook provides voice to Asian American, Pacific Islander historical past and cultures.

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