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This is an interesting infographic from Best Online Colleges, which describes the study of pop culture in education. It questions its relevance and goes through the pros and cons of studying modern cultural artefacts such as The Wire, The Simpsons and Aliens in the classroom Take a look, and let us know how, or if you use popular culture in your classroom in the comments below.
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I recently heard that a conference speaker told his audience, “We need fewer teachers and more facilitators.” My first reaction was, “1986 called and would like its keynote back.” My second thought was that the speaker is dead wrong!...read more... Via ManufacturingStories
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You may also enjoy this TED video by the author http://bit.ly/ZSGmc4 . This type of school reform will be very disruptive to our current system of standards and assesments. Food for a lot of thought! Delete the scoop?
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