Synchronous (Session) Minds, Cameras, Inter(action): Promoting Cultural Diversity in E-Learning more

Sat, Nov 6, 19:30-19:50 Asia/Seoul

In this presentation, we describe online materials designed for groups of sixth and seventh graders with diverse social, racial, and cultural roots. To help children depressed in times of loss, disease, and social distancing during the pandemic, we turned to Asian, African, and Native Brazilian stories of characters who faced hardships and made their dreams come true. The objective is to widen students’ reading repertoire and promote multimodal analysis. After storytelling sessions and discussions about songs, tales, poems, historical documents, and myths from different parts of the world, learners were invited to write back to such narratives, criticizing the texts and reconfiguring them in different discourse genres. Therefore, they had the opportunity of interacting with the stories, reacting to them, and acting socially (or even dramatically) according to the themes tackled. EASTER EGG 5