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Walk a Day in My Shoes: Cultivating Cross‐Cultural Understanding Through Digital Literacy
Author(s) -
Clarke Lane W.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1002/trtr.1890
Subject(s) - digital storytelling , literacy , storytelling , pedagogy , psychology , mathematics education , digital literacy , point (geometry) , cross cultural , visual arts , sociology , narrative , art , literature , geometry , mathematics , anthropology
Walk a Day in My Shoes is a curricular project designed to provide a starting point for teachers to cultivate cross‐cultural understanding among elementary‐age students. In this curricular project, students created their own digital stories about a day spent in their shoes. Through photography, writing, and digital storytelling, each student re‐created a typical day in their life. Then, these stories were shared and exchanged among six global classrooms in the United States, Morocco, France, Romania, Malaysia, and Ireland. The goal of this project was to support students in learning about others and, at the same time, learn about themselves as part of a global community. The author describes this project and presents other ways that teachers can use literacy to create cross‐cultural experiences for their students.