The article title is "Beyond Pen Pals: Shared Readigns, Internet Tools, and Classrooms Oversees."
Marna K. Winter, lecturer in education, and Joan Barnatt, associate professor of education, published an articled titled, “Beyond Pen Pals: Shared Readings, Internet Tools, and Classrooms Oversees” in Social Studies in the Young Learner.
The article describes an online cross-cultural exhange project “Global 2.0,” which connects classrooms around the globe through a shared curriculm that addresses issues of identity, culture and national sterotypes. The project was developed to foster meaningful partnerships between the university, local schools and schools around the globe.
Participants included classroom teachers from Hillcrest and EM Holt Elementary in the Alamance-Burlington School System; St. Kevins Primary School in Glendalough, County Wicklow, Ireland; and Bay Primary School in Cape Town, South Africa.