This paper describes Contexteller, a collaborative educational system for storytelling that supports teachers in configuring and adapting stories to match children's cultural background, by means of exploiting common sense knowledge. This game is meant to support teachers to interact with students with different social and cultural backgrounds, allowing her/him to create stories according to the students´ cultural reality, expressed in their common sense knowledge, and consequently enabling them to get interested in helping the development of the story. This cultural sensitive storytelling environment intends to promote a closer contact between teacher and students and among students themselves giving them a computer tool to help children to freely express their thoughts, desires and to support them to cooperative work with teachers what is desirable for their intellectual and cognitive development. Contextualization and the narrative are supported by the OMCS-Br common sense knowledge base, which gives to the teacher some resources to perform an activity according to the pedagogical goals
['Marcos Alexandre Rose Silva', 'Junia Coutinho Anacleto', 'David Buzatto']
A game to support childrens´ expression and socialization considering their cultural background