Where are you local? icebreaker

Created by sarahlw (@sarahlw), response for Zoom Ice Breakers for the Virtual Language Class Teaching Idea

This winter term, instead of asking students where are you from, we used the prompt where are you local? as an ice-breaker, inspired by Taiye Selasi’s TED talk, Don’t Ask Where I’m From, Ask Where I Am a Local in which she problematizes the notion of being from a place, and of home. We found more… »