Student level: upper intermediate
L1: mixed
Target culture: American culture
Main features: use Web 2.0 tools to promote culture
learn/break essentialist views
Breaking essentialist views of culture
1.
Ask students to write down 1 or 2 stereotypes/images/things
they think about when they think of “American culture”
a.
Give examples: guns, fast food, obesity, military, pop
music, hamburgers, Budweiser, white people
2.
Have Ss research the topic to break their essentialist
view: search for counter-examples of the vie the initially express (fast-food
vs. slow food; guns vs. anti-gun control; hamburger vs. vegetarian/vegan; gangs
vs. youth advocacy groups; Budweiser vs. non-alcoholic party drinks)
a.
Use 2 different Web 2.0 sources (ex. blogs, podcasts,
social media sites, Twitter, search hashtags)
b.
Search the hashtag #gangs on Twitter as an example
c.
Go to Google blogs and search for “_____ blog” as
another example
3.
Write a summary of findings and post images from Tumblr
or other site
a.
Summary/writing topic: Have Ss write a summary that
answers the following questions:
i. What
aspect of American culture did you select?
ii. Why
did you choose this topic?
iii. What
did you find out from reading the blogs and/or listening to the podcasts that
was new to you and/or different from what you thought before reading/listening?
4.
Post their findings on course wiki
5.
Report findings in class (next class)
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