Interregional and Intergenerational Virtual Collaborative Teaching Using the Apple FaceTime App: The East L.A. to PA Project

Precious Vida Yamaguchi and Mr. Enrique Legaspi

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the utility of engaging middle school students living in the inner city of East Los Angeles with undergraduate college students at a women’s liberal arts college in Eastern Pennsylvania. This collaborative intergenerational and interregional research project involves social media and the use of the Apple app, FaceTime, as a method of experiential and virtual learning.

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