The State of Technology and the Arts - Interactive Multimedia in Enhancing Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

The awareness in the diversity of using arts as a medium to infuse culturally responsive arts education classroom is on the rise. Despite gaining interests globally, it has yet to be introduced in Malaysian schools. This paper will use interactive multimedia as teaching tools and materials in enhancing culturally responsive pedagogical module. Using developmental research design, the study takes up samples consisting of sixty secondary school students of cross ethnicity and two arts education teachers. Findings from this study show that by ‘re-purposing’ the technology and by including teachers as co-designers in the development of modules and teaching materials assist in creating cultural awareness and increases the knowledge regarding cultural diversity. Subsequently, the findings demonstrate that teachers are more culturally tolerant and students become more engaged in the learning process. There is yet to be any research performed in this area in the Malaysia setting.