Collections (1-66 of 66)

1. Culture Shock

   Collections | 28 Feb 2019 | Posted by Annette Benson

   Participants are given one of five colors of paper with cultural rules to follow while trying to find out the favorite color, movie, and food of participants with a different color of paper.

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2. Toothpicks

   Collections | 28 Feb 2019 | Posted by Annette Benson

   Stringer and Cassiday have published another version of this type of cultural simulation, this time called "Toothpicks," in their book 52 Activities for improving cross-cultural...

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3. What Is the Message?

   Collections | 28 Feb 2019 | Posted by Annette Benson

   "What Is the Message?" is another version of this type of activity, published in Stringer and Cassiday's 52 Activities for exploring values differences (pp. 91-94).  

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4. The Emperor's Pot, aka Eastern and Western

   Collections | 26 Apr 2019 | Posted by Annette Benson

   In this simulation, participants visit a culture that differences from their own (“East” culture vs. “West”). They become aware of some dimensions of culture (e.g. time,...

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5. Albatross

   Collections | 29 Apr 2019 | Posted by Annette Benson

   T. Gochenour's cultural simulation in Beyond Experience features a Welcoming Ceremony between the members of the Albatross culture and guests.  

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6. Alpha-Beta Partnership

   Collections | 29 Apr 2019 | Posted by Annette Benson

   This activity from Stringer & Cassiday's 52 Activities for improving cross-cultural communication also examines cultural patterns between different groups.

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7. Bafa Bafa

   Collections | 29 Apr 2019 | Posted by Annette Benson

   The simulation BaFa BaFa, published by Simulation Training Systems, examines cultural stereotypes, language, and communication between different groups. 

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8. Rafa Rafa

   Collections | 29 Apr 2019 | Posted by Annette Benson

   RaFa RaFa is another simulation from Simulation Training Systems and is similar to BaFa Ba Fa.

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9. Dividing the Spoils

   Collections | 29 Apr 2019 | Posted by Annette Benson

   Dividing the Spoils, an activity by C. Storti in Figuring foreigners out, examines individualist vs. collectivist cultures. 

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10. Role Playing

    Collections | 08 May 2019 | Posted by Annette Benson

    In this activity by Hofstede, Hofstede, and Pederson, participants will role-play conflict-prone situations and learn about synthetic cultures.

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11. Archie Bunker's Neighborhood

    Collections | 04 Jun 2019 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This activity teaches participants to express feelings about being unfairly treated or experiencing discrimination, as well to understand privilege and stereotypes. 

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12. Intercultural Conflict Styles Inventory (ICS) Group Debriefing

    Collections | 25 Jun 2019 | Posted by Aletha D Stahl

    Slides used with PCP students who had taken the Intercultural Conflict Styles Inventory. Used to generate self- and other awareness. 

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13. Raising Self-Awareness and Developing Intercultural Competence by Activating Personal Filters (article)

    Collections | 27 Jun 2019 | Posted by Aletha D Stahl

    Scott-Monkhouse, Anila & Rigamonti, Enrica. (2015). Raising Self-awareness and developing intercultural competence by activating personal filters. CASALC Review. Abstract excerpt:...

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14. Critiques of Peace Corps, Volontourism, etc.

    Collections | 27 Jun 2019 | Posted by Aletha D Stahl

    Readings from various sources (and uneven quality of writing) that draw attention to international volunteer "do-good" efforts and to Peace Corps as a US government program operating in a...

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15. Journey to Gizmoland

    Collections | 10 Jul 2019 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This simulation, created by Aletha Stahl, is an adaptation of Journey to Sharahad. Participants role play intercultural communication barriers.

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16. Sharahad

    Collections | 10 Jul 2019 | Posted by Annette Benson

    Sharahad is a simulation by Phil Darg in which participants role play intercultural communication barriers. 

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17. Guidance for students as they get to know one another

    Collections | 10 Oct 2019 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    This set of questions might be a good way for pairs or small groups to get to know each other in a COIL/international virtual education experience. I would encourage the use of synchronous meeting...

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18. A Flower's Point of View

    Collections | 03 Jul 2020 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    For those of you abroad in TEFL settings with classrooms that are more homogenous... From the main Digital Toolbox page (remember, under the Discover top menu), try searching a) for an...

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19. Figuring Out Life

    Collections | 21 Oct 2020 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This tool uses the board game CV to help participants develop an understanding of their own worldview values as well as discover their peers' values. 

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20. Eye of the Storm, The & A Class Divided

    Collections | 28 Oct 2020 | Posted by Annette Benson

    The Eye of the Storm and A Class Divided are documentaries on Jane Elliott's groundbreaking discrimination lesson, in which participants are divided into blue-eyed and brown-eyed...

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21. First Impressions Video

    Collections | 28 Oct 2020 | Posted by Annette Benson

    The video in this tool is a part of the Boiler Inclusion Project, which was created by the Division of Diversity and Inclusion at Purdue University. This tool challenges participants to...

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22. Danger of a Single Story

    Collections | 28 Oct 2020 | Posted by Annette Benson

    "Danger of a Single Story" is a TED Talk given by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In this activity, participants will watch her TED Talk and discuss the concept of stories and how...

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23. Check Your Bias Blind Spot

    Collections | 28 Oct 2020 | Posted by Annette Benson

    The bias blind spot, a term first coined by Emily Pronin, Daniel Lin, and Lee Ross (2002) at Stanford University, is when an individual fails to recognize their own biases and how they impact their...

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24. Introduction to Intercultural Learning: A Workshop for Graduate Students

    Collections | 17 Sep 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

    As a result of this workshop, participants will be able to: 1. Define intercultural learning. 2. Compare analogies for culture. 3. Identify domains from the AAC&U Intercultural...

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25. Emic Perspective

    Collections | 01 Dec 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This lesson presents the concepts of etic (outsider/objective) and emic (insider/subjective) understanding of culture. The slides explain the differences in these two perspectives, offer motivation...

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26. Personal Agendas in Teamwork

    Collections | 01 Dec 2021 | Posted by Annette Benson

    In this activity, participants will learn how to define and identity personal agendas, and study how personal agendas can create conflicts in a Case Study. Students engage in group and small...

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27. Emic Perspective

    Collections | 26 Jun 2022 | Posted by Jennifer Seabrook-Scott

    This lesson presents the concepts of etic (outsider/objective) and emic (insider/subjective) understanding of culture. The slides explain the differences in these two perspectives, offer motivation...

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28. The Parable

    Collections | 04 Nov 2022 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This activity uses a parable—a story that typically imparts a moral lesson—to get participants thinking about cultural differences and similarities. Participants will first read a...

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29. Pacing

    Collections | 04 Nov 2022 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This activity challenges participants to recognize different communication patterns involving pacing. They will also reflect on how differences in pacing are perceived and how they might interact...

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30. Poker Face

    Collections | 04 Nov 2022 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This activity challenges participants to interrogate how stereotypes affect our first impressions and the value that we place on others. In this activity, participants will place one card from...

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31. Reducing Stereotype Threats

    Collections | 28 Nov 2022 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This activity, created by Dr. Dan Jones, CILMAR, is based on the chapter by Toni Schmader, William Hall, and Alyssa Croft, “Stereotype threat in intergroup relations”. This...

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32. Human Values Continuum

    Collections | 30 Jan 2023 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This activity challenges participants to recognize and analyze their reactions to a variety of cultural values.  Within our session, we used this tool as an opportunity to practice...

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33. Hidden America: An Intersectional Perspective

    Collections | 22 Feb 2023 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    In 2009 and 2011, ABC aired two special episodes of 20/20 that told the stories of children and young adults living in poverty in two different parts of the United States. Children of the Mountains...

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34. Reducing Stereotype Threats

    Collections | 28 Feb 2023 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This activity, created by Dr. Dan Jones, CILMAR, is based on the chapter by Toni Schmader, William Hall, and Alyssa Croft, “Stereotype threat in intergroup relations”. This...

    https://hubicl.org/members/1005/collections/2023-tesol-conference-an-experiential-and-interactive-lesson-plan-for-appreciating-difference

35. Frameworks and Theories for Intercultural Learning in the Language Classroom

    Collections | 20 Mar 2023 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This collection includes resources for language teachers pertaining to intercultural learning benchmarks, assessments, activities, and more within the language classroom.

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36. Story Stitch

    Collections | 21 Mar 2023 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This activity invites participants to develop empathy for people from varied backgrounds and experiences, demonstrate intentional listening, and build relationships through sharing...

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37. Power Distance Case Study

    Collections | 27 Mar 2023 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This activity encourages participants to reflect on the cultural value dimension of power distance, while considering their own cultural perspectives of authority.

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38. We Americans by The Avett Brothers (song)

    Collections | 25 Jul 2023 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    “We Americans,” a song by The Avett Brothers, provides an interpretation on American life and culture. In this activity, participants will listen to the song/read the lyrics and discuss...

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39. Social Justice Songs

    Collections | 25 Jul 2023 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    The website in this activity lists social justice songs from throughout history and encourages learners to discuss social justice issues from a variety of perspectives. 

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40. Worldview Questionnaire

    Collections | 22 Sep 2023 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This activity challenges participants to interrogate the complexity behind how culture affects an individual’s worldview. 

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41. Conversation Starters: 200 Questions to Get to Know Someone

    Collections | 22 Sep 2023 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This activity includes a range of 200 questions to get to know someone.

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42. Cultural Question Jar

    Collections | 22 Sep 2023 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This activity includes a list of 30 questions around topics of social identity. 

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43. Albatross

    Collections | 25 Oct 2023 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This activity challenges participants to be open to unfamiliar experiences and reflect on how they might react to cultural difference. They will participate in a scene acted out by a simulated...

    https://hubicl.org/members/1005/collections/visual-learning-and-nontext-based-intercultural-learning-activity-tools

44. Language Envelopes

    Collections | 25 Oct 2023 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This activity challenges participants to identify how culture plays into what we deem important and how we sort and categorize the world around us. Participants will be divided into pairs and...

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45. Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory

    Collections | 01 Dec 2023 | Posted by Katherine Yngve

    This instrument gives the learner a picture of their preferred way of verbally and non-verbally interacting across differences of opinion. It helps raise both self-awareness and other-awareness.

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46. YouTube Ethnography Project

    Collections | 29 Feb 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    This activity challenges participants to explore culture through ethnographic fieldwork and video storytelling. Following extensive preparation and research, they will create a video that presents...

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47. The Ethnographic Interview

    Collections | 29 Feb 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    This activity challenges participants to learn and practice ethnographic interviewing skills. In small groups, they will practice interviewing each other using ethnographic techniques and then set...

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48. Martians at the Airport

    Collections | 17 Mar 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    This creativity-training activity was designed for a Spring Break study abroad program at Purdue University titled Amsterdam: Creative Thinking & Innovation in Collaborative Leadership....

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49. Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight

    Collections | 17 Mar 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    This activity challenges participants to recognize the importance of understanding cultural behaviors from an insider’s perspective. They will read the essay “Deep Play: Notes on a...

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50. Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

    Collections | 17 Mar 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    This activity provides links and an overview of activities that can be used in conjunction with the satirical anthropology paper, “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema.” The paper was written...

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51. Albatross

    Collections | 17 Mar 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    This activity challenges participants to be open to unfamiliar experiences and reflect on how they might react to cultural difference. They will participate in a scene acted out by a simulated...

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52. Emic Perspective

    Collections | 17 Mar 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    This activity presents the concepts of etic (outsider/objective) and emic (insider/subjective) understandings of culture, offers motivation for developing emic perspectives by discussing the value...

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53. Compliment Response

    Collections | 18 Mar 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    This assignment focuses on techniques for discovering and acquiring pragmatics, which goes above and beyond learning the vocabulary and grammar of a language to how people use language and...

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54. How Rude Was That?

    Collections | 18 Mar 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    In this activity, participants explore "rudeness" as a concept by assessing a list of behaviors and reflecting on their assessments with one another.

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55. The Perfect Gift

    Collections | 18 Mar 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    In this activity, participants explore how focusing on their view of the “perfect” gift might be tinted by their own wishes and biases (self-awareness), and by exercising curiosity,...

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56. Respect Activity

    Collections | 18 Mar 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    In this activity, participants explore their definitions of terms such as respect, prejudice, and discrimination, by communicating with one another and co-constructing and negotiating...

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57. My Inner Rules

    Collections | 18 Mar 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    In this activity, participants examine their "inner rules," how their "inner rules" came to be, how their "inner rules" impact their assessment of others, and how...

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58. How Does a Behavior Mean?

    Collections | 18 Mar 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    This activity challenges participants to reflect on how they react to particular behaviors, enabling them to step back and suspend their interpretation and judgment of others’ behaviors...

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59. Intercultural Learning Activities

    Collections | 28 Mar 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    The Parable, an activity Disagree Better: Empathy Gym, an activity Guess the Emotion, an activity A Flower’s Point of View, an activity Connecting Empathetically, an...

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60. Draw a House

    Collections | 28 Mar 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    In this activity, participants will compare and contrast features of houses around the world, articulate how and why cultures organize spaces, such as homes, differently, and consider when and how...

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61. Let's Draw a House

    Collections | 28 Mar 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    In this activity, participants "experience leader and follower patterns, demonstrate relational and task-oriented perspectives, and discuss personal and cultural influences on behavior"...

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62. Empathy and DEIB

    Collections | 01 Apr 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    Archie Bunker's Neighborhood, an activity Considering History: “You Got to Go There to Know There” — Creating Empathy for Our Hardest Histories, an article

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63. Examining the Syllabus as Cultural Artifact

    Collections | 02 Apr 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    In this activity, participants learn to articulate how cultural values, beliefs, and assumptions inform educational systems, develop self-awareness of their own cultural values, beliefs, and...

    https://hubicl.org/members/1349/collections/cultural-expression-through-artifacts-and-monuments

64. Examining Monuments as Cultural Expression

    Collections | 02 Apr 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    In this activity, participants learn to recognize points of correspondence between monuments and the controversies that they generate, recognize disparities between monumental structures, and...

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65. Global Learning Contract

    Collections | 10 Apr 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    In this activity, participants "develop and carry out an individualized learning plan," learn to "be more responsible, independent and directed in [their] learning," and...

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66. My Plan for Intercultural Growth

    Collections | 10 Apr 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    In this reflection activity, participants articulate a nuanced understanding of one domain of intercultural knowledge and competence from the AAC&U Intercultural Knowledge and Competence VALUE...

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