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In today’s globalized world, communication students need to be capable of efficiently communicating across the globe.
At ISCAP, part of the 3rd year syllabus in Translation and New Technologies course is focused on culture and the need
to be culturally knowledgeable. We argue the approach to incorporate cultural aspects in HE needs to be studentcentered, in order to encompass not only intercultural awareness, but also the 21st century skills students need to be
successful and competent citizens. Additionally, as studies have shown, the manipulation of digital tools fosters greater
student involvement in learning activities. We have adopted Digital Storytelling - multimodal storytelling technique
- to promote a personal, student-centered reflection on intercultural communication. We intend to present student
and teacher perspectives on this learning experience and assess its relevance in HE contexts, based on the content
analysis of student expressed perspectives on this activity as well as a multimodal analysis of the digital stories created.
A preliminary analysis of our case study has demonstrated that Digital Storytelling potentiates two complimentary
types of reflection: on the one hand, students felt the need to reflect on their own intercultural knowledge, create and
adapt their finding in the form of a story; on the other hand, viewing others’ stories they have raised questions and
demonstrated points of view otherwise ignored.
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Intercultural awareness Digital storytelling Higher education