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Pop culture has a place in the classroom; popular trends like hip hop help to foster interest and ignite conversations in education.
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If you were to take the time and think back to Yoda’s first introduction, you might recall a slight confusion when listening to Yoda form his sentences as the wise, powerful Star Wars character. Perhaps, you even found it silly or, in some cases, as though the sentences were downright incorrect. I fondly remember childhood me thinking it was odd and humorous. My father couldn’t explain why he spoke that way, yet his enthusiasm for Star Wars helped the oddity quickly became an element of life that simply was. My curiosity was never quite put to rest until an advanced English course in college. I’ll warn you now; this post becomes grammatically nerdy pretty quickly.
R. M. FortéPublished 3 years ago in EducationCampaign For Free School Meals Gathers Pace
Controversy over the UK government's plans to get rid of free school meals for children of school age has continued to grow with many different local councils and other companies including restaurants and cafes volunteering to step in to ensure that children are kept well fed during the half term break. The campaign was launched by Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford who went through a similar experience when he was younger and had difficulty affording food when at school due to difficult circumstances.
Ashish PrabhuPublished 4 years ago in EducationThe New Version of the SAT: Chile's Teenagers Against Inequality - Timeline
For ages, people believed that education is one of the most important things in a person’s development. Indeed, obtaining a degree does play a significant role in our lives.
Victoria DaytonPublished 4 years ago in EducationVirtual Learning in a Global Pandemic
School is closed indefinitely. But to justify teachers' salaries and to continue to receive funding from the state....I now introduce you to - SCHOOL AT HOME. That's right folks; a complete and utter fucking mess which includes an itinerary straight off the school bus as if these poor babies are physically entering the school. My daughter is 6 and while entering 1st grade, she is advanced enough to be in 3rd grade. She does extremely well with virtual learning and pretty much everything else. I already work from home so no problem there...Wanna know the issue I have with all of this? These ridiculous and ill thought out plans to make this virtual learning experience reminiscent of them actually being in school. I mean for God sakes, are we really asking 6 year olds to have virtual PE? And why, just why do some of these school districts require these kids to wake up and put on a uniform? Listen up teachers and faculty - These kiddos are at home. That's right - HOME. Dealing with a Global Pandemic - AT HOME. Missing their friends and family. AT HOME. Missing outside. AT HOME. While you are requiring that we, parents act as if it is normal that our kiddos are getting up, getting dressed, only to sit back down in their bedroom or kitchen table to be in front of a zoom for 8 hours a day, the least you could do is stop pretending all of this is okay. Since school has started, my daughter eats more. Know why? Because breakfast, snack, lunch and then more snacks are included in the school schedule. My daughter wouldn't even think of eating this much if it wasn't "required". And guess who is administering all of this food? Certainly not the school cafeteria. I'm blessed. I admit that. I am able to stay home with my daughter as a single mom during a pandemic but damn! As soon as I get back into the groove of work, here she comes running down the stairs with an issue of not being able to log into one of her fifty-thousand zoom classes. And that's the other thing - Why so many usernames and passwords? As an adult I'm already drowning in username/password combo hell. Can we just have all the teachers enter the same room at their designated time? Who came up with this plan? I need to speak to the manager STAT. Anyone else feeling this way? Anybody?
Alyssa JohnsonPublished 4 years ago in EducationShould They Still Teach Cursive in School?
In case you are not aware, some time ago, they stopped teaching cursive writing in schools across many states. As a writer, I am not sure that eliminating any form of language is ever a good idea. What are your thoughts and opinions on this? You can decide for yourself.
Timothy A RowlandPublished 4 years ago in EducationNo Need To Be Scared About School, Say Youngsters
Most schools around the UK will have now reopened following the Covid 19 lock down. They will have had new hand washing stations and sanitising stations added to make sure children can keep their hands clean on a regular basis and avoid catching the virus. The lay out of the schools will also have had to have been changed to ensure social distancing. To help with this, most schools will have input one way systems in classrooms and corridors to ensure that pupils can maintain a 1m+ distancing from each other.
Ashish PrabhuPublished 4 years ago in EducationSupport Education by Causing Some “Good and Necessary Trouble”
As school districts continue to determine the direction of the upcoming school year, the following quote reveals more than any of the posts, news reports, testimonies, or speeches I have encountered. The superintendent’s response raises concerns, both about if schools should open and, if they open, how will expectations be enforced.
Brenda MahlerPublished 4 years ago in EducationPop Culture In Academics
Pop-cultures Place in Academics Pop-culture is the youth’s pastime and is generally consumed by everyone around the world, it’s time to bring pop-culture into the classroom. It is imperative that teachers start using new strategies to keep students engaged and be productive in class. Teachers directing intermediate 200-300 level courses should be able to use the pop-culture technique to push and help their students to comprehend the course material. This technique is carried out by teachers through media education. Media Education is when teachers systematically use pop-culture to relate to course material that students might not be doing well in to then grasp a better comprehension of the material being presented. This in turn creates what is called media literacy in the students because they begin to interpret pop-culture academically and thoughtfully which allows students to recognize the correlation between the media and the course material. This is a great strategy for teachers and a very effective way of educating students, utilizing media education is the future of academics and is an inevitable concept that people must pay attention to. The biggest misinterpretation that people from the outside looking in see, is that pop-culture is seen as a distraction and pastime for consumers as opposed to being thought of as a constructive learning technique. The media is inevitably making its cross into the academic world, teachers must be able to use media education properly, in order to get their students to learn at the highest level possible and attain media literacy.
Ethan HollowayPublished 4 years ago in EducationUrdu Education Board submitted representation to Shri Narendra Modi Ji, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India for Justice to the Pass out Students of UEB
Urdu Education Board has submitted a representation to Shri Narendra Modi Ji, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India dated: 15.06.2020 regarding injustice caused by Shri D.K. Goel, former Deputy Secretary, MHRD, Govt. of India whose misconduct was well known by the officials of MHRD and still facing Departmental Enquiry had illegally and unconstitutionally cancelled their earlier letters issued by MHRD, Govt. of India dated: 25.05.2015 and 25.05.2016 on 05.06.2017 to Directorate of Education, GNCT of Delhi and Chairman, NIOS in respect of Urdu Education Board. In the interest of the students, UEB has moved to Hon’ble High Court of Delhi for Seeking Justice Hon’ble High Court of Delhi after observing all facts has stayed the operation of the cancellation letter as above vide Court order dated: 17.08.2017. The Hon’ble High Court has fixed fresh date of hearing as 07.08.2020 and stay order is made absolute during the pendency of the said writ petition. UEB has requested Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India to withdraw the cancellation letters dated: 05.06.2017 in respect of Urdu Education Board, after that Urdu Education Board immediately withdraw writ petition presently pending in the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi.
Rehana KhatoonPublished 4 years ago in EducationThe Education System Then and Now
Education for me was almost a get away. Growing up in an urban environment makes one think that they are in an experiment almost. PBS, Create, History Channel and The Smithsonian were all ways where I could travel without leaving Indiana. For my friends and I, being told by almost every adult that we had something to prove because we were from the "worst district" gave us all some short of fire under us all.
Ariel KellyPublished 4 years ago in EducationWhat? No GCSE’s?
Of all the pandemics to hit countries in the past, the coronavirus may be the biggest crises to hit the world as we currently know it. Stock markets have experienced extreme volatility and oil prices became negative for the very first time. It has been said that the economic effects of this pandemic will outweigh the effects of the credit crunch of 2008. So I ask , what would the effects of Coronavirus on formal education be? In a time where almost all of the world has had to lockdown and effectively shutdown what used to be the normal way of life. Can it stay the same? Will it have the same purpose? What was it’s main purpose in the first place? What needs to change? and should there be any change for that matter?
Lifestyle with CassandraPublished 4 years ago in EducationWhy Not Edutainment? By Abdul Kargbo and Emmanuel Salia Gaima
We were shooting through St John(Western Area Urban) many months ago, and we noticed a stand-by placard. The placard was, and to a guess, may be still neatly leaned there on a standing pole. It protruded a flaring photo of a Diva of fame-Rozay. The placard carried the first of a type 'edutainment' campaign in Sierra Leone. We did not stop by to take a perfect gander at the other neccessary details of Rozay's brainchild,and to remember faintly,the placard did not carry anything further explanatory of such innovative campaign. In short,it was an ad calling all and sundry to congregate for an official launch of Rozay's innovative Edutainment Campaign. Maybe this will consternate many of our friends, but we had indeed never heard about such innovative plan of Rozay until that day. We might seem newsy to many,but this was one news out of our earlier grabbing reach! What are we on and about? We are about Rozay's exquisite innovation.
Emmanuel GaimaPublished 4 years ago in Education