I have been observing amazing diversity in my TA class.
In the start of the semester, each team will choose two information security topics and present one of them. There are about 14 teams and 18 topics. Initially I was concerned that if many teams choose the same topics, especially the hot ones, then we need to spend a lot of time to adjust. It turned out that the preference of the class is very diverse so that each team can present what they want. I am pretty sure there were no negotiations between teams, so such diversity occurred naturally. Why students' interests are so different? When did the difference emerged in their lives? College? High school? Despite the mystery of the origin, this diversity could put them into different positions in the future, which is a very good thing to see.
Another case for me to observed diversity is the project report. Each team is required to write a vulnerability analysis report of a fake company. Although the flexibility of this assignment is rather small, I still observed great diversity in their reports. The angles are different, technologies are different, format are different, etc...
And when I grade quizzes, I tend to think poor performance of some students as a sign of diversity, instead of a sign of lazy, stupidity, etc. Some answers are not wrong, but just different from the standard ones. And I do believe the students who provided those different answers are matched for some special tasks in the society.
It might sounds crazy, but I do feel that the world is so beautiful because of such diversity exists.
If I have time, I would definitely spend some efforts on studying diversity.
References:
[1] The picture. http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/mercedes-lynn-de-uriarte-supreme-court.html
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