About a year ago this month CILMAR’s director Kris Acheson-Clair sent me a blog about a single tree that bears forty kinds of fruit and said, “There’s got to be an intercultural learning activity in there somewhere...”
Around that same time I had begun to highlight on CILMAR’s Facebook page a new HubICL activity each Tuesday, a collection each Wednesday, a publication each Thursday, a how-to video each Friday, and something for families on Saturday. With only Sundays and Mondays left unclaimed, I decided to dedicate Sunday’s posts to those resources that come our way that seem to be fodder for someone somewhere to make into an ICL activity.
I posted “Art professor grows trees that can bear 40 types of fruit” on October 25, 2020, with the opener “Welcome to There's Got to Be an Intercultural Learning Activity in There Somewhere Sunday, #TGTBAICLAITSS!” and waited to see what would happen. A year later, I can say that it wasn’t the best response we ever received from a Facebook post, but it wasn’t the worst either. In fact, of the 30 #TGTBAICLAITSS posts the CILMAR staff has created this year, the “40 types of fruit” remains the sixth most popular, based on Facebook reach and engagement analytics.
I bet you’re wondering what the top five most popular #TGTBAICLAITSS posts were now that I’ve told you about #6; right? Moving from #5 down to #1, Letterman-style, they were:
Popularity |
Date |
Post |
Source |
5 |
4/11/2021 |
The Conversation |
|
4 |
7/26/2021 |
The Washington Post |
|
3 |
4/5/2021 |
Bloomberg |
|
2 |
3/21/2021 |
The Daily Moth |
|
1 |
3/7/2021 |
NPR's Morning Edition |
After a year of doing this, I have a few questions for you: when you look at this list, are there any of the above that you would use as a centerpiece to start a conversation or spark an activity in your learning context? Would you use any of the resources above to engender intercultural learning in a group? Is there another article that you’ve been using as a conversation starter?
If so, the HubICL curation team would love to help you to begin to create a new activity or discussion guide in the HubICL Toolbox. To get started, you simply go to hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/new and fill out as many boxes as you know the answer for. The HubICL curation team will fill in the rest and then ask you for your approval before publishing. HubICL users who have tried it have been pleasantly surprised at how quick and easy it is!
P.S. For those who are interested, you can find the complete list of all of the #TGTBAICLAITSS below—listed from most popular to least—or you can simply follow the hyperlinked hashtag #TGTBAICLAITSS directly to Facebook to see all of the posts in context.
Popularity |
Date |
Post |
Source |
1 |
3/7/2021 |
NPR's Morning Edition |
|
2 |
3/21/2021 |
The Daily Moth |
|
3 |
4/5/2021 |
Bloomberg |
|
4 |
7/26/2021 |
The Washington Post |
|
5 |
4/11/2021 |
The Conversation |
|
6 |
10/25/2020 |
CNN |
|
7 |
8/15/2021 |
Fashion And Tech Join Forces To Create A Dress That Signals When People Get Too Close |
NPR |
8 |
5/30/2021 |
The New York Times |
|
9 |
8/22/2021 |
Creativity And Diversity: How Exposure To Different People Affects Our Thinking |
NPR's Hidden Brain |
10 |
5/2/2021 |
Ken Burns' 'Hemingway' Docuseries Dives Into The Writer's Complicated Life |
NPR |
11 |
5/23/2021 |
T-The New York Times Style Magazine |
|
12 |
9/12/2021 |
Internationale Jugendbibliothek |
|
13 |
7/9/2021 |
How many triangles do you see? |
[image] |
14 |
11/15/2020 |
The New Yorker |
|
15 |
12/13/2020 |
The New York Times |
|
16 |
11/22/2020 |
TV 2 |
|
17 |
12/20/2020 |
Forbes |
|
18 |
11/8/2020 |
'Purple Rain' — As Retold In A Language Without A Word For Purple |
NPR |
19 |
11/29/2020 |
TV 2 |
|
20 |
3/14/2021 |
[book] |
|
21 |
4/18/2021 |
Cultural Atlas |
|
22 |
5/9/2021 |
Windows Swap |
|
23 |
5/16/2021 |
We're Not Really Strangers |
|
24 |
3/28/2021 |
National Recording Registry Adds 'Rhythm Nation' Among 25 New Selections |
Library of Congress |
25 |
4/25/2021 |
NPR's Hidden Brain |
|
26 |
2/21/2021 |
After General Motors poked fun of Norway in Super Bowl ad, Norway painfully hits back |
Daily Kos |
27 |
9/5/2021 |
Hungry Planet |
|
28 |
2/7/2021 |
Bhangra dancing to Celtic music in the Yukon wilderness is the mash-up we didn't know we needed |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) |
29 |
11/1/2020 |
NPR |
|
30 |
8/29/2021 |
NPR's Hidden Brain |
|
31 |
9/26/2021 |
Disney+ |
Kris Acheson-Clair @ on
This makes me want to get in there and start creating! :-)
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