Summary

– Main objectives of the Virtual Exchange

To provide students with opportunities to develop intercultural communicative competence and critical digital literacies in the context of global citizenship education.

– Targeted learning outcomes

Upon completing the project, students should be able to:

(1) self-assess intercultural communicative competence in cross-cultural interaction and teamwork.
(2) critically use and evaluate digital tools and demonstrate critical (digital) literacies in collaboration and co-co-creation of multimodal texts.
(3) demonstrate understanding of interconnections between global issues and local contexts.

– Global task description

Urban landscape and cultures offer rich opportunities for learning about who we are as local and global citizens in our contemporary world. The guiding question in this project is: How can we use the city as a text and a resource to gain better understanding of how global issues operate in our local contexts.

The project is informed and framed by the United Nations’ sustainable development Goal 11: “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

Students engage in a sequence of three tasks: (1) connecting; (2) comparing and collaborating; (3) co-creating.

Partners

Partner / department Course Language of instruction Number of students
Adam Mickiewicz University, (PL)
Foreign Language Center
English for Tourism English 22
Malmö Universitet, (S)
Faculty of Education department of Culture, Language and Media
English Studies and Education: Language, Text and Culture English 22
Universidad Nacional de San Martin (AR)
CELES (Centro de Estudios del Lenguaje en Sociedad)
Discursos MultimodalesSpan Spanish 22

Start and end date

March 2020 – April 2020

Duration

 6 weeks

Discipline

Teacher training with subject specialisation

Integration and assessment

The virtual exchange is integrated into each respective course at the three institutions and assessed through a reflection portfolio and co-creation of multimodal texts.

Technology tools used

– Learning environment

Canvas

– Collaboration tools

Zoom
Messenger, What’s app, Facebook, MS Teams, e-mail
Google Docs and Drive
Trello

Students decide the format of the final product and the tool used, for example:
Youtube; Filmora; VivaVideo; MadMagz; WordPress; Blogger, Prezi, Instagram, etc.

– Reflection tool

E-portfolios
Mind-Map & Looking Glass