Young learners´ development of 21st-century literacies can respond to an urgent social concern: the disintegration of the sociocultural fabric due to the exclusion of the elderly. Culture is a continuum that changes over time and space. Therefore, the temporal distance between generations implies a cultural gap. Engaging with complex and multicultural identities coming from different generations allows learners to serve as mediators among generations and cultures. Bringing speakers from different generations together as members of one shared community revitalizes the social fabric while enhancing students’ intercultural and intergenerational competences. This pedagogical project uniquely plugs students into dynamic learning experiences involving elder raconteurs that help present the language through culturally authentic materials such as their testimonies, which serve as a reference for the development of multimodal texts produced with the aid of technology tools. Findings reveal that this intergenerational communication is pivotal to emboldening students to take ownership of their development of cross-cultural skills.